Helicobacter pylori infection causes chronic active gastritis that after many years of infection can develop into peptic ulceration or gastric adenocarcinoma. The bacterium is highly adapted to surviv
Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) is an important precancerous lesion in intestinal-type gastric cancer, with persistent Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection inducing the condition. In a previo
The bacterial human pathogen Helicobacter pylori produces a type IV secretion system (cagT4SS) to inject the oncoprotein CagA into gastric cells. The cagT4SS external pilus mediates attachment of the
