TY - JOUR JF - MJIRI JO - Med J Islam Repub Iran VL - 33 IS - 1 PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/2/01 TI - Molecular detection of Campylobacter jejuni in patients with Crohn’s disease in Iran TT - N2 - Background: Crohn's disease is one of the most significant intestinal disorders and is known as inflammatory bowel disease; Campylobacter spp. are one of the leading causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans. Methods: In this study, 60 tissue samples, including 30 cases with Crohn’s disease and 30 cases with no inflammatory bowel disease, were collected. Patients were referred to Taleghani hospital and Behboud clinic between March 2015 and May 2016. Biopsies were used for DNA extraction and assessment of Campylobacter jejuni in patients with Crohn's disease and controls using polymerase chain reaction and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. All positive amplified fragments were sequenced. The gene encoding 16S rRNA, specific to Campylobacter genus, was amplified. Results: The results were positive for Campylobacter genus in patients with Crohn's disease compared to healthy individuals. The quantitative real-time PCR showed a significantly higher prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni, particularly in hippurate hydrolase in tissue specimens of patients with Crohn's disease compared to control group. The correlation between Campylobacter jejuni and diarrhea symptoms in patients with Crohn's disease and controls was investigated. One positive case of Campylobacter jejuni found in patients without diarrhea was compared with 13 patients with diarrhea. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated the alarmingly high rate of Campylobacter jejuni prevalence in Crohn's disease patients with diarrhea symptoms. However, further investigation is needed to determine the possible causing factors of this disease. SP - 461 EP - 466 AU - Sarabi Asiabar, Akram AU - Asadzadeh Aghdaei, Hamid AU - Zamani, Samin AU - Bokaie, Saied AU - Zali, Mohammad Reza AU - Feizabadi, Mohammad Mehdi AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, & Thoracic Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran KW - Crohn disease KW - Campylobacter genus KW - Campylobacter jejuni KW - Real-time PCR KW - Inflammatory bowel disease UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-5206-en.html DO - 10.47176/mjiri.33.76 ER -