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Helicobacter pylori: microbiology of a 'slow' bacterial infection
1Dept of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2605.
Trends in Microbiology
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
The bacterium Helicobacter pylori lives in the gastric mucus layer of humans and induces a chronic inflammatory response that can result in both peptic ulceration and gastric neoplasms. Helicobacter pylori infection can be considered as a 'slow', adaptive and autoregulating process. The mechanisms by which this slow bacterial pathogen survives and interacts with the host immune system may provide a model for other persistent mucosal pathogens.