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Helicobacter pylori adaptation in vivo in response to a high-salt diet.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2015
Loh John T, Gaddy Jennifer A, Algood Holly M Scott, Gaudieri Silvana, Mallal Simon, Cover Timothy L
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori exhibits a high level of intraspecies genetic diversity. In this study, we investigated whether the diversification of H. pylori is influenced by the composition of the diet. Specifically, we investigated the effect of a high-salt diet (a known risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma) on H. pylori diversification within a host. We analyzed H. pylori strains isolated from Mongolian gerbils fed...
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