Table of Contents

Preliminary Contents Epidemiology of H. pylori Infections (Hazel Mitchell and David Forman) Discovery of H. Pylori and Association with Peptic Ulcer Disease (Barry Marshall and Robin Warren) Bacteriology Basic Bacteriology and Culture of H. pylori (Lief Anderson and Torkel Wadstrom) Taxonomy (Jay Solnick and Armelle Marais) Morphology and Ultrastructure (Gunther Bode and Jani O'Rourke) Cell Envelope (Paul O'Toole and M. Clyne) LPS (Anthony Moran) Vacuolating Cytotoxin (Johan Atherton, Tim Cover, and Antonello Covacci) Adhesins (Thomas Boren) Energy Metabolism and Synthetic Pathways Microaerobic Physiology (Nicky Hughes, David Kelly, and Robert Poole) Metabolism of Nitrogenous Compounds (Hilde de Reuse and Stefan Skaloubris) TCA Cycle and Synthesis of Fatty Acids (Nicky Hughes and David Kelly) Nucleotide Metabolism (George Mendz) Biosynthetic Pathways Related to Cell Structure and Function (Teruko Nakazawa and Suhas Phadnis) Resistance to Oxidative Stress (Stuart Hazell) Physiology and Molecular Biology Urease (Harry Mobley) Ion Transport and Metabolism (S. Bereswill and A. Van Vliet) Metabolite Transport (Brendan Burns and George Mendz) Cell Division (Teruko Nakazawa) Protein Secretion (Rino Rappuoli) Motility (Chemotaxis, and Flagella, Vincenzo Scarlato and Gunther Spohn) Transcription, Translation, Recombination, and Repair (Mark Forsyth) Chromosome Replication (Johannes G. Kusters and Leon Smeets) Restriction and Modification Systems (Richard Peek) Acid Tolerance (George Sachs and Klaus Melchers) Genetics Genomics (Richard Alm) Genetic Exchange (Dawn Israel) Gene Regulation (Nicolette de Vries and Johannes G. Kusters) Mutagenesis of H. pylori (Rainer Haas and Agnes Labigne) Pathogenicity Islands and Insertion Sequences (Antonello Covacci) Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics (Mark Achtman and Sebastian Suerbaum) Heterogeneity and Subtyping (Robert Owen, J. L. van Doorn, Diane Taylor, and Ge Wang) Bacterial Virulence and Pathogenic Mechanisms Colonization and Adherence (David McGee, Traci Testerman, and Harry Mobley) Avoidance of Immune Response (Ben Appelmelk) Vaccines (John Nedrud, Steve Czinn, and Jack Pappo) Pathogenesis in the Host, Diagnosis, and Treatment Pathology of Gastritis and Peptic Ulceration (Mike Dixon) Host Inflammation Response to Helicobacter Infection (Peter Ernst) H. pylori and Gastric Cancer (Masahiro Asaka) Markers of H. pylori Infections (David Graham) Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance, Francis Megraud, Stuart Hazell, and Y. Glupczynski) Other Helicobacter Species Non-gastric Helicobacters (David Schauer) Other Gastric Helicobacters and Spiral Organisms (Adrian Lee and M. Stolte) Animal Models of Helicobacter Infection (Richard Ferrero and Jim Fox)