OCTOBER 21, 2020

Helicobacter pylori: An Update

Frederick B. Peng, MD
Department of Medicine
David Y. Graham, MD Mimi C. Tan, MD, MPH
Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Medicine

Gastroenterology was forever changed in 1982, when Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren successfully isolated Helicobacter pylori from a 70-year-old man with frequently bleeding gastric and duodenal ulcers.1,2

Their success was somewhat serendipitous because cultures from similar patients were negative after