The authors evaluate clinical experience based on a correlation between the clinical condition and the finding of Campylobacter pylori (CP) in a total of 1027 specimens of the gastric mucosa. They confirmed the high incidence of CP in patients with a fresh duodenal ulcer (g 7%) but also in the inactive stage of duodenal ulcer disease (97.8%) and in patients with a pyloric ulcer (94.4%). An analogous incidence of CP in patients with so-called isolated duodenitis (in the course of the disease no ulcer lesion was ever detected), i.e. in 95.5%, indicates the relationship of this condition with peptic ulcer disease. The authors indicate diagnostic possibilities as regards CP infection by cultivation, rapid urease tests and microscopic examination and they emphasize the practical value of urease tests. Based on their own experience the authors confirm the high eradication effect of bismuth preparations, in particular bismuth subsalicylate and colloid bismuth subcitrate.

Keywords: Campylobacter /isolation & purification/; Campylobacter Infections /drug therapy/; Duodenal Diseases /drug therapy/; Gastric Mucosa /microbiology/; Humans; Peptic Ulcer /microbiology/; Stomach Diseases /drug therapy/