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Helicobacter pylori cag-type IV secretion system facilitates corpus colonization to induce precancerous conditions in Mongolian gerbils.
Gastroenterology - 1 May 2005
Rieder Gabriele, Merchant Juanita L, Haas Rainer
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Epidemiological studies suggest that atrophic corpus-dominant gastritis is an increased risk factor for gastric carcinogenesis. The role of the Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system (T4SS) for pathogenesis in the Mongolian gerbil model was explored. METHODS: Mongolian gerbils were infected for 32 weeks either with H. pylori type I strain B128 or with isogenic mutant strain B128delta...
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