Risk Factors for Opportunistic Infections in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

We sought to identify and quantify the clinical factors that were associated with opportunistic infections in inflammatory bowel disease patients.We identified 100 consecutive IBD patients with opportunistic infections. For each case, 2 matched IBD patients who did not have a history of opportunistic infection were selected as controls. Conditional logistic regression was used to assess associations between putative risk factors and...