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For millions of years prokaryotes have orchestrated their genetic players to produce survival strategies that overcome almost all ills that bacterial flesh is heir to. Infection of mammalian gastric mucosae by Helicobacter spp. is due to this organism’s insistence on habitation of probably the most unfriendly environment in the mammalian body, the inside of the stomach. The eradication of H. pylori for treatment of peptic ulcer disease not associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), steroids or severe stress is now accepted as part of medical treatment of this set of illnesses. Whether the infection should always be treated with violence is a point of discussion [1].
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Sachs, G., Scott, D., Wecks, D., Melchers, K. (1999). The acid tolerance of Helicobacter pylori . In: Olbe, L. (eds) Proton Pump Inhibitors. Milestones in Drug Therapy MDT. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8795-3_7
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