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A bug with excess gastric avidity

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Figure 1: Citations to Helicobacter (or Campylobacter) pylori, cimetidine (Tagamet) and urease plotted in five-year increments.
Figure 2: The genome of the Gram-negative bacterium H pylori, sequenced by Tomb et al.1, has thrown up a few surprises.

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Doolittle, R. A bug with excess gastric avidity. Nature 388, 515–516 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/41418

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