Covid-19 infection in Crohn's disease under treatment with adalimumab

Jin et al described recently 74 cases of people having COVID-19 and experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms.1 In Italy, we are managing a dramatically increasing number of people infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2, the virus causing COVID-19.2 3 Despite the Italian Government has implemented extraordinary measures to restrict viral spread, including significant decrease of air and train traffic within the country, cases are increasing (>75 000 people until 26 March 2020) also in other regions than Lombardy, which is the main Italian region affected from covid-19 (>35 000 people until 26 March 2020).4 This means that a lot of people under immunosuppressive-immunomodulating therapies could be infected by this virus, and that the immunosuppressive status could influence both the status of the basic disease and both the course of pulmonary disease. A 30-year-old male was admitted on emergency department of the Bari University Hospital, Puglia Region, Southern Italy, on 12 March 2020 (with a …