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SUBMITTER: Matsumoto T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3964410 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matsumoto Takehisa T Kawakubo Masatomo M Akamatsu Taiji T Koide Naohiko N Ogiwara Naoko N Kubota Seiko S Sugano Mitsutoshi M Kawakami Yoshiyuki Y Katsuyama Tsutomu T Ota Hiroyoshi H
World journal of gastroenterology 20140301 12
A spiral bacterium (SH9), morphologically different from Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), was found in a 62-year-old woman's gastric mucosa. Gastroscopic examination revealed multiple gastric ulcers near the pyloric ring; mapping gastric biopsy showed mild mononuclear infiltration with large lymphoid follicles in the antrum, without corpus atrophy. Urea breath test and H. pylori culture were negative, but Giemsa staining of biopsies revealed tightly coiled bacteria that immunostained with anti-H ...[more]