What are the host factors that place an individual at risk for Helicobacter pylori-associated disease?

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Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with duodenal and gastric ulcer disease, gastric cancer, and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. Although more than half the world's population harbors H. pylori, only a proportion will develop clinically significant disease. The specific clinical outcome of an individual can be examined as the modulation of host factors by H. pylori infection. Host...

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