title: [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2005 for the discovery of the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori].
abstract: This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the Australian doctors Marshall and Warren for their discovery and further identification of the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori. Thanks to their confidence in their own observations, we are now able to cure people with peptic-ulcer disease and low-grade gastric lymphoma and are potentially able to prevent gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, afd. Maag-, Darm- en Leverziekten, Postbus 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen. j.h.kleibeuker@int.umcg.nl
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kleibeuker
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Thijs
mesh_terms: D005756:Gastritis / Q000266:history / Q000382:microbiology; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology; D014481:United States; D014904:Western Australia