Article
Helicobacter pylori Diversity and Gastric Cancer Risk.
mBio - 26 Jan 2016
Cover Timothy L
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Helicobacter pylori infection is the strongest known risk factor for this malignancy. An important goal is to identify H. pylori-infected persons at high risk for gastric cancer, so that these individuals can be targeted for therapeutic intervention. H. pylori exhibits a high level of intraspecies genetic diversity, and over the past two...
Topics
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genetic Variation
- Genomic Islands
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Humans
- Risk Assessment
- Stomach Neoplasms
- Virulence Factors
