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An Uncultured Gastric Spiral Organism Is a Newly Identified Helicobacter in Humans
1 Aug 1993
Abstract excerpt
"Gastrospirillum hominis" is an uncultivated spiral bacterium in human gastric mucosa that is larger and more tightly coiled than Helicobacter pylori. In an attempt to determine if this organism is a new species of Helicobacter, its 16S rRNA gene was cloned and sequenced. Gastric mucosa from 2 patients infected with "Gastrospirillum hominis" was fed to specific pathogen-free mice. Electron microscopy of gastric...
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