Isolation of Helicobacter pullorum from patients with enteritis.

doi:10.3109/00365549709019053

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Isolation of Helicobacter pullorum from patients with enteritis.

Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1997

Steinbrueckner B, Haerter G, Pelz K, Weiner S, Rump J A, Deissler W, Bereswill S, Kist M

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Helicobacter pullorum, recently described as sp. nov., is commonly isolated from asymptomatic poultry. Two cases of human enteritis associated with H. pullorum, one of them in an immunocompromised patient, are reported. Problems in the correct species identification by means of phenotypic and gen...

Topics

Adult
Enteritis
Fatty Acids
Feces
Female
Helicobacter
Helicobacter Infections
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Male
Phenotype

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