Barry Marshall who was born in September, 30 1951 is famously known for his helicobacter pylori. He is an Australian physician. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, then moved to Perth. He attended many different colleges such as University of Western Australia which he got a Bachelor of Medicine and of Surgery. He was married in 1972 and had many children. In 1979 he was offered to Registrar in Medication at Royal Perth hospital. Where he began his studies in gastritis with Robin Warren in 1981. They studied bacteria which led to the culture of H. pylori because of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. H. Pylori is a study of bacteria that they believed couldn’t live in the environment of the stomach. Berry knew his studies were correct, more and more scientist started urging to read and test the theory/evidence. …show more content…
He decided to test it on himself. He drank a petri dish containing the h pylori. He was expecting a difference in years to come. But realized after 3 days he had nausea. Due to the fact of the achlorhydria which kills the bacteria in the stomach. After day 5-8 he had none acidic vomiting. During day 8 he had a biopsy that showed gastritis. On the 14th day after many days of ingestion a third endoscopy was done and he was forced to take antibiotics. After the experiment Marshall continued to research H. pylori at UWA. Then he accepted an appointment at Pennsylvania State University. Barry Marshall and Ryan Warren discovered bacteria in the stomachs with people with gastritis. This test promoted that bacteria is a factor of these diseases. The results were prevailing that they were physiological not infectious. It was a cure of ulcers. He was then awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of Sciences in 1999. The Keio in 2002 and the Australian in 2003. He was rewarded Companion of Australia in 2007. Then in 2009 he was awarded Doctor of Science by University of
The disease was first noted in 1786 by Caleb Hillier Parry 1755- 1822, physician from General Hospital, Bath, England. His account was published posthumously in 1825.
At the time suggesting that ulcers weren’t caused from stress was considered as career suicide. They we’re able to gain funding to help continue their research to prove that it was caused by the Helicobacter Pylori bacteria. Their work was continuously rejected for publication and they received constant criticism. The scientific community believed that the conclusions that they made we’re all premature and were not well supported. In June 1984, Barry Marshall tested it on himself and was able to prove that the Helicobacter Pylori bacteria is indeed the cause of
Alfred Day Hershey was born on 4th of December 1908, in Owosso, Michigan. Robert Day Hershey and Alma Wilbur Hershey were his biological parents. While his father worked for an auto manufacturer, Alfred attended public schools in Owosso and nearby Lansing. He studied Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology from Michigan State College in 1930 and he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the same school in 1934. Hershey's interest in bacteriology and the biochemistry of life was clearly noticeable. His doctoral dissertation was focused on the chemistry of Brucella, the bacteria responsible for brucellosis, also known as undulant fever. Undulant fever is transmitted to humans from cattle and causes recurrent fevers and joint pain. After receiving his Ph.D., Hershey took a position as a research assistant in the Department of Bacteriology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. There he worked with Jacques Jacob Bronfenbrenner, one of the pioneers in bacteriophage research in the United States.
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This was an amazing discovery but it was unfortunately met with a lot of skepticism in the medical community as it was believed that no bacteria could survive the hostile environment of the stomach. Discouraged, Dr. Marshall actually drank a beaker full of the H. pylori in a broth solution. He became very ill days later and via endoscopy ten days after inoculation he was noted to have gastritis with the presence of H. pylori in his stomach. This marked the beginning of the belief that peptic ulcer disease is an infectious disease. Doctors Marshall and Warren went on to prove that antibiotics are an effective treatment in the management of PUD. It wasn’t until 2005 that Warren and Marshall were awarded the Noble Prize in Medicine for their work on H. pylori (Hardy,
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We cannot ignore that we have identified H. pylori in 18 patients (20.63%) suffering from gastric and periodontal disease. Namiot DB et al. (10) detected it only in three cases among 157 patients. H. pylori was detected in dental plaque with a rate of 34.1% (16) and in 82.3% by Gao J et al. (24). Boyanova et al. (6) isolated oral strain from a child with both gingivitis and chronic gastritis. In the study of Anand et al., the occurrence of H. pylori in the dental plaque of patients with gastric H. pylori infection was higher than in controls (25). Sudhakar U et al.(1), identified five patients (10%) positive for H. pylori by culture. H. pylori was identified by culture in 2/208, and by PCR in 15/208 (7%) (26). This result demonstrates the
cag PAI is an almost 40 kb stretch of DNA that encodes nearly 40 genes,
There will be a high probability of positive serology or another test when using the test-and-treat strategy in populations with high prevalence of H. pylori regardless of symptomatology (24). Hp laboratory diagnostic methods are divided into two categories. One is invasive test: it is through the endoscope to obtain gastric mucosal tissue as a test material, Conventional endoscopic exam is usually performed to diagnose H. pylori-associated diseases。Culturing of H. pylori from gastric biopsy specimen is a highly specific but less sensitive method, histopathological examination, Histology is usually considered to be the gold standard in the direct detection of H. pylori infection and is also the first method used for
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In the early 20th century ulcers were believed to be caused my dietary and stress factors. If someone was diagnosed with an ulcer they were hospitalized and put on a bland food diet. Then later on in the 20th century gastric acid was blamed for causing ulcers. So then treatment changed to antacids and medication that stopped gastric acid. In 1982 Robin Warren and Barry Marshall identified that Helicobacter pylori and ulcers were connected to each other. People did not accept their findings. People still believed it was stress, diet, or gastric acid that caused the ulcers. Many years later in 1994, A National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference concluded that Helicobacter pylori was strongly related to ulcers and that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori could be treated with antibiotics. Then, a year later in 1995 data showed that 75% of
Harald zur Hausen began his studies in medicine, and following his medical internship began studying microbiology [1]. Zur Hausen had a passion for understanding how cancers could result from bacterial infections. He was determined to understand how certain bacteriophages incorporate their DNA into host DNA and how this would alter the overall proliferation of a cell. Zur Hausen focused his research on
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