PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A Morris
AU  - G Nicholson
AU  - J Zwi
AU  - M Vanderwee
TI  - Campylobacter pylori infection in Meckel's diverticula containing gastric mucosa.
AID  - 10.1136/gut.30.9.1233
DP  - 1989 Sep 01
TA  - Gut
PG  - 1233--1235
VI  - 30
IP  - 9
4099  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/30/9/1233.short
4100  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/30/9/1233.full
SO  - Gut1989 Sep 01; 30
AB  - A retrospective survey was undertaken of 228 resected Meckel's diverticula to determine if there was any evidence of Campylobacter pylori infection in diverticula containing gastric mucosa. Among the 65 diverticula with gastric mucosa one was heavily infected with organisms having the morphological appearances of C pylori. The specimen had been removed from a six year old Samoan boy who had been admitted with small bowel obstruction. Infection and associated mucosal inflammatory infiltrate were limited to areas of gastric mucosa only. The detection of the organism at this site remote from the gastroduodenal environment suggests the organism may be transmitted by the orofaecal route.