Erschienen in:
05.05.2020 | Technical Notes
Dual infective burden of Helicobacter pylori and intestinal parasites: Good or bad news for the host?
verfasst von:
Zahid Hussain, Emad El-Omar, Yeong Yeh Lee
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Gastroenterology
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Ausgabe 2/2020
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Excerpt
Gastric cancer (GC) remains an important public health concern worldwide, and the best-known carcinogen is
Helicobacter pylori (
H. pylori), a Gram-negative helical shaped bacterium found in the stomach by Marshall and Warren [
1,
2]. Although
H. pylori infects nearly half of the world population including India [
3] and Malaysia [
4], GC rates vary in different populations [
5]. Despite the high prevalence of
H. pylori, India reported low rates of GC (the Indian Enigma) similar to the Zulia population reported in study by Fuenmayor-Boscán et al. [
6,
7]. However, the Chinese in Malaysia have the highest reported rates of
H. pylori and also GC among the three ethnic groups (the cohort effect) [
8]. A similarity between India and Zulia is the high burden of unicellular parasites and multicellular worms typically found in these communities [
6,
7]. From the above observations thus arise the following questions: …