Culture of a gastric non-Helicobacter pylori Helicobacter from the stomach of a 14-year-old girl.
Helicobacter felis belongs to the fastidious gastric non-Helicobacter pylori helicobacter species that are typically found in the stomach of cats and dogs. These bacteria have the potential to colonize the human stomach and are then associated with gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcers, and MALT lymphoma. Strains cultured from the human stomach are rare. Here, we present the first isolation of H. felis from a gastric biopsy specimen of a 14-year-old girl who presented with persistent epigastric pain. The strain was cultured using our routine protocol for H. pylori and identified by phylogenetic analyses of partial urease AB and gyrB gene sequences.
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. nicole.wueppenhorst@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Nicole
N
Wüppenhorst
Friederike
F
von Loewenich
Beate
B
Hobmaier
Marianne
M
Vetter-Knoll
Sona
S
Mohadjer
Manfred
M
Kist
D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000382:microbiology*; D044922:Helicobacter felis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
D004269:DNA, Bacterial