High prevalence rate of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> resistance to clarithromycin during long‐term multiple antibiotic therapy for chronic respiratory disease caused by non‐tuberculous mycobacteria

Abstract

All patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease being treated long-term with multiple antibiotics, including clarithromycin, harboured clarithromycin-resistant H. pylori in the stomach. Therefore, eradication of H. pylori before commencement of long-term therapy including clarithromycin should be recommended.