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Hepatitis B vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Ruwaida Ben Musa, Anuhya Gampa, Sanjib Basu, Ali Keshavarzian, Garth Swanson, Michael Brown, Rana Abraham, Keith Bruninga, John Losurdo, Mark DeMeo, Sohrab Mobarhan, David Shapiro, Ece Mutlu
Ruwaida Ben Musa, Graduate College, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Anuhya Gampa, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Sanjib Basu, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Ali Keshavarzian, Garth Swanson, Michael Brown, Rana Abraham, Keith Bruninga, John Losurdo, Mark DeMeo, Sohrab Mobarhan, David Shapiro, Ece Mutlu, Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Ece Mutlu, Department of Medicine, Clinical Research Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
Author contributions: Ben Musa R collected, analyzed, interpreted the data, and wrote the paper; Gampa A wrote project protocol, set up data collection database and collected part of the data; Basu S reviewed all the statistics; Keshavarzian A, Swanson G, Brown M, Abraham R, Bruninga K, Losurdo J, DeMeo M, Mobarhan S and Shapiro D provided data and reviewed the manuscript; Mutlu E provided the hypotheses, designed the study, interpreted the data, supervised the data collection, analysis and wrote the paper; Mutlu E gave final approval of the version to be published.
Correspondence to: Ece Mutlu, MD, MS, MBA, Associate Professor, IBD Program Director, Department of Medicine, Clinical Research Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Rush University, 1725 W. Harrison, Suite 206, Chicago, IL 60612, United States. ece_mutlu@rush.edu
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Received: November 23, 2013
Revised: May 31, 2014
Accepted: June 26, 2014
Published online: November 7, 2014
