On the action of 5-amino-salicylic acid and sulfapyridine on M. avium including subspecies paratuberculosis.

BACKGROUND: Introduced in 1942, sulfasalazine (a conjugate of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) and sulfapyridine) is the most prescribed medication used to treat "inflammatory" bowel disease (IBD.) Although controversial, there are increasingly compelling data that Mycobacterium avium subspec...

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Main Authors: Robert J Greenstein, Liya Su, Azra Shahidi, Sheldon T Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1885215?pdf=render