Gastroenterology

Researchers shed light on bacterial infection linked to ulcers and stomach cancer

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 23rd, 2002

About 40% of the U.S. population is infected with a bacterium that can cause stomach inflammation and ulcers and increases the risk of stomach cancer. Although the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, was discovered in the 1980s, scientists are just now beginning to understand how it causes infections in the stomach lining.

Karen Ottemann, assistant professor of environmental toxicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is studying H. pylori's ability to move around and the role this motility plays in infections. Her latest findings, published in the journal Infection and Immunity, indicate that for H. pylori to start and maintain an...

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