Non‐<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> bacterial flora during acid‐suppressive therapy: differential findings in gastric juice and gastric mucosa

Abstract

Non-H. pylori flora not only contaminates the gastric juice but also colonizes the gastric mucosa of a large proportion of patients treated long-term with acid inhibition. The relationship between H. pylori and non-H. pylori bacteria in the pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer needs further elucidation.