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Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a curved and short Gram-negative bacterium that is microaerophilic in nature. It was discovered to be the cause of stomach inflammation in the 1980s. generally, the infections caused by H. pylori are asymptomatic.
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