Helicobacter Pioneers: Firsthand Accounts from the Scientists who Discovered Helicobacters 1892 - 1982

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements

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2. Helicobacters were discovered in Italy in 1892: An episode in the scientific life of an eclectic pathlogist, Giulio Bizzozero.

   Natale Figura and Laura Bianciardi
   

3. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Japan.

   Yoshihiro Fukuda, Tadashi Shimoyama, Takahashi Shimoyana and Barry J Marshall
   

4. An early study of human stomach bacteria.

   A Stone Freedberg
   

5. Gastric urease in ulcer patients in the 1940's: The Irish connection.

   Humphrey J O'Connor and Colm A O'Morian
   

6. How it was discovered in Belgium and the USA (1955 -1976) that gastric urease was caused by a bacterial infection.

   Charles S Lieber
   

7. A personal history of giving birth to the cohort phenomenon of peptic ulcer disease.

   Amnon Sonnenberg
   

8. John Lykoudis: The general practitioner in Greece who in 1958 discovered the etiology and a treatment of peptic ulcer disease.

   Basil Rigas and Efstathios D Papavassiliou
   

9. How I discovered helicobacters in Boston in 1967.

   Susumu Ito
   

10. How we discovered in China in 1972 that antibiotics cure peptic ulcer.

    Shu-Dong Xiao, Yao Shi and Wen-Zheng Liu
    

11. Helicobacter pylori was discovered in Russia in 1974.

    Igor A Morozov
    

12. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in England in the 1970's.

    Howard W Steer
    

13. We grew the first Helicobacter and didn't even know it!.

    Adrian Lee, Michael Phillips and Jani O'Rourke
    

14. The Dallas experience with acute Helicobacter pylori infection.

    Walter L Peterson, William Harford and Barry J Marshall
    

15. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Perth, Western Australia.

    J Robin Warren
    

16. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium, caused peptic ulcer disease.

    Barry J Marshall
    

17. Helicobacter pylori treatment in the past and in the 21st Century.

    Peter Unge

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