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The bacteria that is most strongly linked with gastric ulcer formation is H. pylori.
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Can kids get stomach ulcers?
Yes; ulcers are caused by the H. pylori bacterium which can certainly occur in children.
Most gastric ulcers are caused by the bacterium called what?
H. pylori is the bacteria associated with peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer.
What is the medical term meaning your stomach eating itself?
In a sense, a stomach ulcer (gastric ulcer, in medical terms) can be thought of as "the stomach eating itself." Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium associated with stomach ulcers.
What vitamin is associated with liver injury and peptic ulcers?
niacin
Peptic ulcers are NOT associated with smokers?
Smoking does not cause ulcer formation, but it does cause gastritis, and does cause delayed healing of ulcers.
Who discovered that most stomach ulcers were caused by a bacterium called heliobacter pylori?
Barry J Marshall and J Robin Warren
What food is the most common cause for stomach ulcers and gastritis in humans?
Certain foods can indeed aggravate ulcers, but food does not cause them - they are caused by a bacterium called heliobactor pylori. Gastritis - a very different thing from ulcers - can be caused by any particularly spic, greasy or heavy food.
How was it discovered that microbes caused peptic ulcers to form?
The link between bacterium H. Pylori and gastric ulcers was suspected for a long time, but finally proven in an unscientific way by scientist Barry Marshall (1981) who was fed up of not being able to confirm the link so drank a cup full of the bacterium and developed an ulcer a few days later.
What is Dr John Robin Warren famous for?
He and his partner,Barry Marshall, discovered that bacterium was the cause of stomach ulcers, and re-discovered Helicobacter pylori
Is a bacterium multi-cellular or unicellular?
unicellular, however sometimes they are associated in groups or long strings.
What is H. pylori?
Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that lives in the mucous tissues that line the digestive tract. Infection with H. pylori is the most common cause of duodenal ulcers.
What bacteria infects the bile ducts?
The bacterium most commonly associated with infection of the bile ducts is Escherichia coli
