Relevance of Helicobacter pylori virulence factors for vaccine development Relevancia de los factores de virulencia de helicobacter pylori para el desarrollo de vacunas

• Main Authors: Luz del Carmen Hernández-Hernández (Author), Eduardo César Lazcano-Ponce (Author), Yolanda López-Vidal (Author), Germán Rubén Aguilar-Gutiérrez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Helicobacter pylori infection increases the risk for a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes, ranging from peptic ulcer disease to gastric cancer. However, the infection induces gastric and duodenal ulceration or gastric cancer in only a minority of infected subjects because H. pylori strains are genet...