A community-driven genomic investigation of Helicobacter pylori isolates from Indigenous communities in the Arctic of Canada.

• Main Author: Yarmie, Jeremiah
• Other Authors: Knox, Natalie (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) Graham, Morag (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), McClarty, Grant (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), Larcombe, Linda (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), Sparling, Richard (Microbiology)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Helicobacter pylori; Bacterial genomics; Community-driven research; Aklavik; Arctic; Canada; Fort McPherson; Inuvik; Teslin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/36166

Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative, flagellate, microaerophilic member of the Epsilonproteobacteria, with a spiral or curved bacilli morphology (Marshall and Warren 1984). The bacterium resides in the human stomach, and infections can span decades, often going undetected due to minor pathogenesi...