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Evidence for a primate origin of zoonotic<i>Helicobacter suis</i>colonizing domesticated pigs
8 Sept 2017
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter suis is the second most prevalent Helicobacter species in the stomach of humans suffering from gastric disease. This bacterium mainly inhabits the stomach of domesticated pigs, in which it causes gastric disease, but it appears to be absent in wild boars. Interestingly, it also colonizes the stomach of asymptomatic rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys. The origin of modern human-, pig- or non-human...
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