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Abstract
Helicobacter pylori is a microbial pathogen that colonises the stomach of more than half of the world's human population. H. pylori infection can induce chronic gastritis, peptic ulceration and more rarely, gastric adenocarcinoma. A prominent feature of H. pylori is the presence of a pathogenicity island (PAI) which encodes a type IV secretion system (T4SS). This review focuses on the processes of how H. pylori induces PAI-dependent epithelial cell signalling that might be of importance in gastric inflammation and the pathogenesis of neoplasia.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16173500 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2005.06.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Med Microbiol ISSN: 1438-4221 Impact factor: 3.473