Acute Symptomatic Gastritis Due to Helicobacter heilmannii

Abstract

Helicobacter heilmannii is a Gram-negative spiral-shaped organism predominantly associated with zoonotic infection. Human pathology has also been described, but acute symptoms with complete resolution have been infrequently reported. We present a 50-year-old man in whom H. heilmannii gastritis presented as an acute febrile illness and was successfully treated with antibiotics and proton pump inhibitor. Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of similar cases are reviewed.

Culture of a Gastric Non‐Helicobacter pylori Helicobacter from the Stomach of a 14‐Year‐Old Girl

“…For further species identification, a molecular approach rather than culture has been used in most cases owing to the fastidious nature of these organisms . Whether other diagnostic tests established for H. pylori detection such as serum antibody detection, stool antigen EIA, and urea breath test are useful for diagnosis or eradication control has not been investigated systematically . In our patient, the stool antigen EIA performed before eradication therapy was negative as well as the urea breath test thereafter.…”

“…In 0.2-6% of human gastric biopsy specimen, these long, spiral-shaped bacteria are found by histology. The colonization/infection with one of the gastric non-H. pylori helicobacter species is associated with chronic gastritis and in some rare cases with gastroduodenal ulcers and MALT lymphoma [7,[9][10][11][12][13].…”