Chapter 5 Helicobacter pylori—Associated Dyspepsia in Paediatrics

Helicobacter pylori ubiquitously infects the human gastric mucosa since time immemorial, predictably before the man’s diaspora out of East Africa around 58,000 years ago [1]. Colonization may have been somehow beneficial for human carriers, allowing the co-evolution of this gram-negative bacterium and its host over the centuries. Yet, at leas