Helicobacter pylori Intrafamilial Infections: Change in Source of Infection of a Child from Father to Mother after Eradication Therapy
AUTOR(ES)
Taneike, Ikue
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Biopsy specimens of the antrum and corpus were obtained from four Helicobacter pylori-infected members of a family and from the same boy (son 1) in whom the infection reappeared after simultaneous successful eradication treatment of three family members, excluding the mother. A total of 18 to 60 H. pylori isolates were obtained from each specimen and subjected to rRNA gene restriction pattern analysis. The father's isolates and the initial isolates from son 1 showed the same HindIII type, which was divided into three HaeIII subtypes. Isolates from the mother and a brother (son 2) and posttreatment isolates from son 1 showed a distinct HindIII type (with one minor subtype), which was divided into six HaeIII subtypes. All subtypes of the initial isolates from son 1 were present in the father's isolates, and all subtypes of the posttreatment isolates from son 1 were present in the mother's isolates but not in son 2's. Electron microscopic analysis of the biopsy specimens demonstrated extremely high levels of H. pylori colonization in the father's gastric mucosa. H. pylori adherence with a ruffle formation was also demonstrated. The findings suggest that son 1 was infected initially with the H. pylori strain of the father and son 2 was infected with the H. pylori strain of the mother and that after eradication therapy son 1 was reinfected with the H. pylori strain of the mother, who did not undergo eradication therapy.
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