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Helicobacter pylori inhibits phagocytosis by professional phagocytes involving type IV secretion components.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 2000
Ramarao N, Gray-Owen S D, Backert S, Meyer T F
Abstract excerpt
Gastric infections by Helicobacter pylori are characteristically associated with an intense inflammation and infiltration of mainly polymorphonuclear lymphocytes (PMNs) and monocytes. The inflammatory response by infiltrated immune cells appears to be a primary cause of the damage to surface epithelial layers and may eventually result in gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric cancer and/or MALT-associated gastric...
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