H pyloriinfection causes chronic pancreatitis in Mongolian gerbils

To investigate whether chronic H pylori infection has the potential to induce pancreatitis in the Mongolian gerbil model, and whether it is dependent on an intact type IV secretion system.Mongolian gerbils were infected with wild type (WT) H pylori type I strain B128 or its isogenic mutant B128 deltacagY (defective type IV secretion). After seven months of infection, H pylori was reisolated from antrum and corpus and H pylori DNA was analyzed by...