The purpose of this study is to determine whether mixed H. pylori strain infection is the reason for eradication failure during treatment of H. pylori infection. The investigators present the results got from extensive sampling of biopsy samples taken from individuals diagnosed with H. pylori connected disease. The investigators were looking for individuals that were not able to eradicate H. pylori although they had susceptibility testing tailored antibiotic therapy. On their control visit after 2 months they presented again with H. pylori although at their first visit they had H. pylori isolated from biopsy sample sensitive to all antibiotics prescribed. Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) was used to prove the sequence type of H. pylori and E test was used to determine susceptibility of H. pylori to antibiotics.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
10
Amoxicillin, metronidazole and tetracyclin as primary drugs to treat H. pylori infection in duration of 10 days.
Institute of microbiology and immunology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sequence type of H.pylori determined with MLST as a good evidence that people are infected with only one strain of H. pylori
The investigators assume that people that are not able to eradicate infection with H. pylori although they have never been treated for such infection and they have taken appropriate therapy, have such problems because H. pylori is capable to escape from immune response. The investigators will define if patients have the same H. pylori sequence type through longer period and that such H. pylori is capable to develope resistance to clarithromycin very quickly.Such patients can eliminate H. pylori if we check the infection status more often and give them more suitable antibiotic therapy.
Time frame: Six months after first visit the strains from before/after therapy will be inspected with MLST to see if people have mixed strain infection.
Sequence type of H.pylori determined with MLST as a good evidence that people are infected with only one strain of H. pylori
The investigators assume that people that are not able to eradicate infection with H. pylori although they have never been treated for such infection and they have taken appropriate therapy, have such problems because H. pylori is capable to escape from immune response. The investigators will define if patients have the same H. pylori sequence type through longer period and that such H. pylori is capable to develope resistance to clarithromycin very quickly.Such patients can eliminate H. pylori if we check the infection status more often and give them more suitable antibiotic therapy.
Time frame: 9 months after first visit to see if people still have H. pylori due to insufficient immune response.
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