Not all Helicobacter pylori strains are created equal: Should all be eliminated?

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9057, 1997, Pages 1020-1022

  Blaser, Martin J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0030891113     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)09133-7     Document Type: Note

References (22)

1. Blaser MJ, Parsonnet J. Parasitism by the "slow" bacterium Helicobacter pylori leads to altered gastric homeostasis and neoplasia. J Clin Invest 1994; 94: 4-8.
2. Koelz HR. Gastric acid in vertebrates. Scand J Gastroenterol 1992; 27: 2-6.
3. Paster BJ, Lee A, Fox JG, et al. Phylogeny of Helicobacter felis sp nov Helicobacter mustelae, and related bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41: 31-38.
4. Dubois A, Fiala N, Heman-Ackah LM, et al. Natural gastric infection with spiral bacteria in monkeys: a model for H pylori and "G hominis" infection in humans. Gastroenterology 1994; 106: 1405-17.
5. Dubois A, Fiala N, Weichbrod RH, et al. Seroepizootiology of Helicobacter pylori gastric infection in nonhuman primates housed in social environments. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33: 1492-95.
6. Taylor DN, Blaser MJ. The epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infections. Epidemiol Rev 1991; 13: 42-59.
7. Pounder RE, Ng D. The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in different countries. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 1995; 9: S33-39.
8. Blaser MJ. Genetic basis for Helicobacter pylori diversity. In: Hunt RE, Tytgat GNJ, eds. Helicobacter pylori: basic mechanisms to clinical use 1996. Amsterdam: Kluwer, 1996: 33-39.
9. Jiang Q, Hiratsuka K, Taylor DE. Variability of gene order in different Helicobacter pylori strains contributes to genome diversity. Mol Microbiol 1996; 20: 833-42.
10. Go MF, Kapur V, Graham DY, Musser JM. Population genetic analysis of Helicobacter pylori by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis: extensive allelic diversity and recombinational population structure. J Bacteriol 1996; 178: 3934-38.
11. Aspinall GO, Monteiro MA, Pang H, Walsh EJ, Moran AP. Lipopolysaccharide of the Helicobacter pylori type strain NCTC 11637 (ATCC 43504): structure of the O antigen and core oligosaccharide regions. Biochemistry 1996; 35: 2489-97.
12. Apelmelk BJ, Simoons-Smit I, Negrini R, et al. Potential role of molecular mimicry between Helicobacter pylori lipopolysaccharide and host Lewis blood group antigens in autoimmunity. Infect Immun 1996; 64: 2031-40.
13. Levin BR. Evolution and maintenance of virulence in microparasites. Emerg Infect Dis 1996; 2: 93-102.
14. Susser M, Stein Z. Civilization and peptic ulcer. Lancet 1962; i: 115-19.
15. Blaser MJ. Role of vacA and the cagA locus of Helicobacter pylori in human disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 1996; 10: 73-78.
16. Atherton JC, Cao P, Peek RM, Tummuru MKR, Blaser MJ, Cover TL. Mosaicism in vacuolating cytotoxin alleles of Helicobacter pylori: association of specific vacA types with cytotoxin production and peptic ulceration. J Biol Chem 1995; 270: 17771-77.
17. Fairchok MP, Aston WS, Fischer GW. Carriage of penicillin-resistant pneumococci in a military population in Washington, DC: risk factors and correlation with clinical isolates. Clin Infect Dis 1996; 22: 966-72.
18. El-Omar E, Penman I, Ardill JES, Chittajallu RS, Howie C, McColl KEL. Helicobacter pylori infection and abnormalities of acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer disease. Gastroenterology 1995; 109: 681-91.
19. Fujimoto S, Marshall B, Blaser MJ. PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism typing of Helicobacter pylori. J Clin Microbiol 1994; 32: 331-34.
20. Taylor NS, Fox JG, Akopyants NS, et al. Long-term colonization with single and multiple strains of Helicobacter pylori assessed by DNA fingerprinting. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33: 918-23.
21. Kirschner DE, Blaser MJ. The dynamics of Helicobacter pylori infection of the human stomach. J Theor Biol 1995; 176: 281-90.
22. Marshall BJ, Warren JR. Unidentified curved bacilli in the stomach of patients with gastritis and peptic ulceration. Lancet 1984; i: 1311-15.