Basic and Clinical Aspects of Helicobacter Pylori Infection (Hardcover)

The book presents a well chosen selection of contributions to the IV Workshop of the Helicobacter Pylori Study Group held in Boloogna, Italy, in November 1991. Current Topics in the rapidly growing field related to gastroduodenal pathology and Helicibacter pylori infection include: symptoms and histology of nonulcerous dyspepsia, the role of surgical infections in geriatric age, pathogenic mechanisms associated with structural factors of the bacterium (toxins, adhesins, agglutinins) as well with the host immune response, the role of serology in the diagnosis of the infection, some aspects of molecular biology of the bacterium, and the newest therapeutic approaches.