Trichuris suis seems to be safe and possibly effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

@article{Summers2003TrichurisSS,
  title={Trichuris suis seems to be safe and possibly effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease},
  author={Robert W. Summers and David E Elliott and Khurram Qadir and Joseph F. Urban and Robin Albrecht Thompson and Joel V. Weinstock},
  journal={American Journal of Gastroenterology},
  year={2003},
  volume={98},
  pages={2034-2041},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2605979}
}
This open trial demonstrates that it is safe to administer eggs from the porcine whipworm, Trichuris suis, to patients with CD and UC and demonstrates improvement in the common clinical indices used to describe disease activity.
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