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To the Editor: I enjoyed seeing the excellent photomicrograph of Helicobacter pylori provided by Genta and Graham in Images in Clinical Medicine (July 25 issue).¹ They describe a 35-year-old man with a duodenal ulcer who received triple therapy with omeprazole, clarithromycin, and metronidazole for two weeks. Why did the patient undergo endoscopy eight weeks later, as well as a urea breath test? Documentation of the eradication of H. pylori is not currently warranted in clinical practice.² The best evidence of a cure is the absence of recurrent symptoms of an ulcer. I suspect that the patient was enrolled in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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