The IDI Classification of Crohn’s Disease

Abstract

The IDI (Infectious Diseases Incorporated) classification of Crohn’s disease is a distillate of nearly 20 years of studying of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and Crohn’s diseases. Unraveling the events that combine to produce Crohn’s disease has allowed for the construction of a disease classification based on the disease’s pathogenesis rather than disease severity. Over-emphasis of disease’s immune-mediated character and insufficient focus on the invasive gastrointestinal bacterial flora has created therapeutic ambiguity.