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In April 1982, in the Microbiology Department of Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, endoscopic biopsy specimens of human gastric mucosa were cultured and yielded a microaerophilic, curved organism which was named Campylobacterpyloridis [9]. The specific epithet was grammatically incorrect, and the name was corrected to Campylobacter pylori [8]. However, the ultrastructure of C. pylori and its fatty acid composition were found to be remarkably different from Campylobacters [3]. Four studies of rRNA sequencing have shown clearly that C. pylori does not belong in the genus Campylobacter [6, 11–13]. These studies indicated that C. pylori is nearer to Wolinella succinogenes, but two of the studies noted sufficient differences between W. succinogenes and C. pylori to justify separate genera [6, 12]. Owen [10] has identified 14 phenotypic differences between C. pylori and W. succinogenes which indicate that these species should be in separate genera.
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Goodwin, C.S. (1990). Taxonomy of Helicobacter pylori and Related Bacteria. In: Malfertheiner, P., Ditschuneit, H. (eds) Helicobacter pylori, Gastritis and Peptic Ulcer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75315-2_1
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