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Oral cavity and Helicobacter pylori.
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Salmanian A-H, Siavoshi F et al. J Oral Pathol Med 2008; 37: 324–328
The aim of this study was to explore an important earlier postulate made by these authors, that there is an intimate relationship between Helicobacter pylori and oral yeasts. DNA was extracted from 13 different strains of Candida albicans containing, on microscopic examination, bacterium-like bodies suggestive of H. pylori. Fragments of these genes, specific to H. pylori, were then amplified using polymerase chain reaction. There was a 98% homology between these specific genes, extracted from the C. albicans and the H. pylori positive control genes. The authors conclude that the endosymbiotic relationship between H. pylori and C. albicans could explain the re-inoculation of the stomach by H. pylori after antimicrobial therapy.
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Yeast of the oral cavity is the reservoir for Heli(c)obacter pylori. Br Dent J 205, 645 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.1076
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.1076
