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Serious infections in patients with inflammatory bowel disease receiving anti-tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha therapy: an Australian and New Zealand experience.

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The aim of this study was to examine the Australian/New Zealand experience of serious infections and TB in IBD patients receiving anti‐TNF‐α therapy from 1999–2009.
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Ian C Lawrance, Graham L Radford-Smith, Peter A Bampton, Jane M Andrews, Pok-Kern Tan, Anthony Croft, Richard B Gearry and Timothy H J Florin

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Maintenance infliximab for Crohn's disease: the ACCENT I randomised trial

TL;DR: Patients with Crohn's disease who respond to an initial dose of infliximab are more likely to be in remission at weeks 30 and 54, to discontinue corticosteroids, and to maintain their response for a longer period of time, if inflIXimab treatment is maintained every 8 weeks.
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Tuberculosis associated with infliximab, a tumor necrosis factor alpha-neutralizing agent

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Adalimumab for maintenance of clinical response and remission in patients with Crohn's disease: the CHARM trial.

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