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NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine

A Stomach Dweller

Caption: A scanning electron micrograph of Helicobacter pylori in the human stomach. The bacterium had been the dominant organism in our stomach for thousands of years. Due to antibiotics and improved sanitation, it is now disappearing.

Credit: Martin J. Blaser, M.D.

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