Gastroduodenal Disease and Helicobacter pylori: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment

TOC: Foreword by Barry Marshall.- The Discovery of Campylobacter- like Organisms.- Epidemiology of H.pylori Infection.- Chronic Gastritis and Nonulcer Dyspepsia.- Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers.- Gastric Cancer and Lymphoma.- Pediatric H.pylori Infection.- Microbiology of H. pylori.- Animal Models of H. Gastritis.- Mechanisms of H.pylori Infection: Bacterial Factors.- Host Response and Vaccine Development to H.pylori Infection.- H. pylori Infection.- Economic Perspectives in the Management of H.pylori Infections.- Antibiotic Treatment of H.pylori infection.- H.pylori and the Future: What Lies Ahead?