Table of Contents

Foreward

Preface

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Helicobacters were discovered in Italy in 1892: An episode in the scientific life of an eclectic pathlogist, Giulio Bizzozero
Natale Figura and Laura Bianciardi

2 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Japan
Yoshihiro Fukuda, Tadashi Shimoyama, Takahashi Shimoyana and Barry J Marshall

3 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

Index

About the Author

Barry J. Marshall – Curriculum Vitae
Barry J. Marshall, born September 30, 1951, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Academic Education and Appointments
1968-74 M.B., B.S., Univ. of Western Australia
1977-84 Registrar, Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital
1985-86 NHMRC Research Fellow, Gastroenterology, Royal Perth Hospital
1986-94 Research Fellow and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1996 Professor of Research in Internal Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1997 Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Western Australia
1999 Clinical Professor of Microbiology, Univ. of Western Australia
2003 NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Univ. of Western Australia

Selected Honours and Awards
1994 Warren Alpert Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Australian Medical Association Award (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Albert Lasker Award
1996 Gairdner Award
1997 Paul Ehrlich Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1998 DR AH Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam
1998 Florey Medal, Canberra
1998 Buchanan Medal, Royal Society
1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences, Philadelphia
2002 Keio Medical Science Prize
2003 Australian Centenary Meda
2005 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with J.R. Warren)