Martin J. Blaser

TL;DR: This policy paper summarizes the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) recommendations about how best to address the synergistic crises of rising rates of antibiotic resistance and waning approvals of new antibiotics.

TL;DR: It is suggested that westernization significantly affects human microbiome diversity and that functional AR genes appear to be a feature of the human microbiome even in the absence of exposure to commercial antibiotics.

TL;DR: H. pylori strains of vacA signal sequence type s1a are associated with enhanced gastric inflammation and duodenal ulceration and vacA s2 strains areassociated with less inflammation and lower ulcer prevalence.

TL;DR: A model is proposed in which luminal H. pylori secrete substances that mediate inflammation that is beneficial to the organism but ultimately deleterious for the host; in addition to tissue damage, inflammation also affects gastric secretory function.

TL;DR: In this article, historical and epidemiological aspects of gastrointestinal infections gastrointestinal tract structure and physiology immunologic defense against gastrointestinal pathogens approach to clinical gastrointestinal syndromes clinical approach to gastrointestinal disorders in immunocompromized hosts gastric infections gastrointestinal agents of diarrheal disease - bacterial and fungal infections, viral infections, parasitic infections diagnostic considerations in gastrointestinal infections therapy for gastrointestinal infections prevention and control.