A Stomach Dweller (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

A Stomach Dweller

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A scanning electron micrograph of Helicobacter pylori in the human stomach. The bacterium had been the dominant organism in our stomach for thousands of years. Due to antibiotics and improved sanitation, it is now disappearing.

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Martin J. Blaser, M.D.

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