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Potential viral pathogenic mechanism for new variant inflammatory bowel disease

Department of Pathology, Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland; joleary@coombe.ie

Keywords: new variant inflammatory bowel disease; measles virus; autism

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I write in relation to our paper that was published in the April 2002 issue of Molecular Pathology.¹ When generating data for this manuscript, we tested samples and controls provided by our collaborators at the Royal Free Hospital, London.

Before the paper was published (January 2002), we became concerned that four samples included in the "control category" might not have been correctly categorised. We immediately sought to clarify the situation. While our investigation was ongoing, we decided to test four additional controls, which matched the diagnostic classification of the control samples under investigation. They tested negative, so the overall data remained unchanged.

We later established that we were correct in our suspicion that the original four controls had been inaccurately grouped. For the avoidance of doubt, those four cases tested negative for measles virus. They were as follows:

• Three "normal" biopsies that should have been classified as "autistic enterocolitis".
  
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