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How bacteria induce stomach ulcers
Email: Jonathan Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030224-01 doi:10.1186/20030224-01
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Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterium that colonizes the gut mucosa and can induce gastric ulcers. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics, Akihiro Fujikawa and colleagues report how the H. pylori cytotoxin VacA causes ulcer formation (Nature Genetics, DOI:10.1038/ng1112, 24 February, 2003).
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