Study Sheds Light on How Stomach Bug Manages to Beat Immune System to Cause Infection

A new study presented at the Society for General Microbiology Autumn Conference sheds light on how Helicobacter pylori bacteria, which causes a life-long stomach infection resulting in duodenal ulcers or stomach cancer, manipulates the human immune system to survive in the mucosal lining of the stomach. Researchers from the University of Nottingham have shown that iH. pylori/i is able to supress the body's normal production of 'human beta defensin 1' (h (and) #946;D1), ...

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