Is Helicobacter pylori a myth or the missing link? - 11/09/11
Doi : 10.1016/S0002-9610(96)00235-8
Wayne H. Schwesinger, MD ⁎
From the Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA
*Requests for reprints should be addressed to Wayne H. Schwesinger, MD, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7842.
Abstract |
What is required, overall, is a new paradigm in the way people think about disease. Rather than a view that sees humanity's relationship to the microbes as a historically linear one, tending over the centuries toward ever-decreasing risk to humans, a far more challenging perspective must be sought, allowing for a dynamic, nonlinear state of affairs between Homo sapiens and the microbial world, both inside and outside their bodies.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keyword : Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague
| ** | Presented as the Edgar J. Poth Memorial Lecture at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 28–May 1, 1996. |
© 1996
Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.
Vol 172 - N° 5
P. 411-417 - novembre 1996 Retour au numéro
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