Article
Helicobacter hepaticus sp. nov., a microaerophilic bacterium isolated from livers and intestinal mucosal scrapings from mice.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1994
Fox J G, Dewhirst F E, Tully J G, Paster B J, Yan L, Taylor N S, Collins M J, Gorelick P L, Ward J M
Abstract excerpt
A bacterium with a spiral shape and bipolar, single, sheathed flagella was isolated from the livers of mice with active, chronic hepatitis. The bacteria also colonized the cecal and colonic mucosae of mice. The bacterium grew at 37 degrees C under microaerophilic and anaerobic conditions, rapidly...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Helicobacter
- Helicobacter Infections
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Intestinal Mucosa
- Liver
- Mice
- Mice, SCID
- Microscopy, Electron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny