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Volume 335:1841-1843 December 12, 1996 Number 24
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Helicobacter pylori, Gastric Ulcer, and Duodenal Ulcer

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by Parsonnet, J.
To the Editor: In her editorial on the article by Hansson and associates (July 25 issue),1,2 Dr. Parsonnet suggests that the age at which Helicobacter pylori infection is acquired is the predictive factor for the different diseases induced by this bacterium (i.e., duodenal ulcer disease or gastric cancer). Yet our studies in China and studies in several developed countries all indicate that childhood is usually the period when H. pylori infection is acquired.3,4 Indeed, Dr. Parsonnet has stated elsewhere, "Adults who currently harbor the organism are more likely to have been infected in childhood than adulthood."5

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