Recrudescence of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with healed duodenal ulcer after treatment with different regimens.

Abstract

Recrudescence of H. pylori infection after apparent eradication can occur, but it could be that the treatment was only suppressing the organism. The definition of eradication of H. pylori infection may need to be revised, and more sensitive techniques to assess eradication of H. pylori are required.