Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of paediatric peptic ulcer disease (PUD). In children with no other aetiology for the disease, this rare event occurs shortly after infection, presuming a still poorly understood higher susceptibility of the patient and highlighting the virulence of the implicated strain. Recently, we showed that the enhanced virulence of a group of paediatric ulcerogenic-strains...
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