Editorial Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Gastroenterology.2.031
Treatment and Drug Resistance to Helicobacter Pylori: A Brief Review
Vinícius Lima de Souza Gonçalves1, Jonathan Santos Apolonio2, Ronaldo Teixeira da Silva Junior2, Maria Luísa Cordeiro Santos2, Beatriz Rocha Cuzzuol2, Marcel Silva Luz2, Fabian Fellipe Bueno Lemos2, Hanna Santos Marques1, Camilo Santana Silva2, Mariana Miranda Sampaio2, Bruna Teixeira da Costa2, Fabrício Freire de Melo2,*
- 1Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Vitória da Conquista 45083-900, Bahia, Brazil
- 2Instituto Multidisciplinar em Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Vitória da Conquista 45029-094, Bahia, Brazil
Corresponding Author
Fabrício Freire de Melo, freiremelo@yahoo.com.br
Received Date: October 10, 2021
Accepted Date: November 02, 2021
de Souza Gonçalves VL, Apolonio JS, da Silva Júnior RT, Santos MLC, Cuzzuol BR, Luz MS, et al. Treatment and Drug Resistance to Helicobacter Pylori: A Brief Review. Arch Gastroenterol Res. 2021; 2(3): 75-78.
Copyright: © 2021 de Souza Gonçalves VL, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Helicobacter pylori, Antimicrobial resistance, Treatment
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