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Of microbe and man: determinants of Helicobacter pylori-related diseases.
FEMS microbiology reviews - 1 Jan 2006
van Amsterdam Karin, van Vliet Arnoud H M, Kusters Johannes G, van der Ende Arie
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The human gastric pathogen Helicobacterpylori infects the human gastric mucus layer of approximately half of the world's population. Colonization with this bacterium results in superficial gastritis without clinical symptoms, but can progress into gastric or duodenal ulcers, gastric malignancies and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-lymphomas. Disease outcome is affected by a complex interplay between host,...
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