Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk for respiratory syncytial virus infection, according to new research presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology.
Although patients with IBD are at an increased risk for developing respiratory infections, research has been limited on RSV in this setting, according to the researchers, led by Ryan A. Smith, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He and his