Helicobacters are indigenous to the human stomach: Duodenal ulceration is due to changes in gastric microecology in the modern era

Gut

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 721-727

  Blaser, M J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DUODENUM ULCER; EVOLUTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 0031742934     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.43.5.721     Document Type: Note

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