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The Long Term Clinical Course of Postinfectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome After Shigellosis; A 10 Year Follow up Study

NCT02516683 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 229

Last updated 2015-08-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background: The incidence of postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) was reported to be in the range of 5-30%, but limited number of long-term follow-up results.

Objective: To investigate the long term clinical course of PI-IBS after Shigellosis.

Setting: A Shigellosis outbreak in a tertiary referral hospital with about 2,000 employees in Korea at 2001.

Patients: A Shigella-exposed cohort of 124 hospital employees who had been infected by Shigella sonnei due to contaminated food in the employee-cafeteria in Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, at December 2001. A control cohort of age and sex-matched, non-infected 105 contemporary hospital employees.

Measurements: Questionnaire survey for bowel symptoms at 1, 3, 5, 8 and 10 years after outbreak.

Conditions

  • Shigella Sonnei Infection

Interventions

OTHER

Shigella sonnei infection

A Shigella-exposed cohort of 124 hospital employees who had been infected by Shigella sonnei due to contaminated food in the employee-cafeteria in Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, at December 2001.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yonsei University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Young Hoon Youn, MD, PhD · Yonsei University

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-12-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2015-07-31

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