| Value |
50
%
|
| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
Tomb et al., The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Nature. 1997 Aug 7 388(6642):539-47. p. 540 left column, second paragraph from bottomPubMed ID9252185
|
| Primary Source |
Cover TL, Blaser MJ. Helicobacter pylori infection, a paradigm for chronic mucosal inflammation: pathogenesis and implications for eradication and prevention. Adv Intern Med. 1996 41 :85-117.PubMed ID8903587
|
| Comments |
Helicobacter pylori is a micro-aerophilic, Gram-negative, slow growing,
spiral-shaped and flagellated organism. Its most characteristic
enzyme is a potent multisubunit urease (Mobley et al., 1995 PMID 7565414) that is crucial for its
survival at acidic pH and for its successful colonization of the gastric
environment, a site that few other microbes can colonize. H. pylori
is probably the most common chronic bacterial infection of
humans, present in almost half of the world population (primary source). |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
105496 |