Elshenawi, Y.; Hu, S.; Hathroubi, S. Biofilm of Helicobacter pylori: Life Cycle, Features, and Treatment Options. Antibiotics2023, 12, 1260.
Elshenawi, Y.; Hu, S.; Hathroubi, S. Biofilm of Helicobacter pylori: Life Cycle, Features, and Treatment Options. Antibiotics 2023, 12, 1260.
Elshenawi, Y.; Hu, S.; Hathroubi, S. Biofilm of Helicobacter pylori: Life Cycle, Features, and Treatment Options. Antibiotics2023, 12, 1260.
Elshenawi, Y.; Hu, S.; Hathroubi, S. Biofilm of Helicobacter pylori: Life Cycle, Features, and Treatment Options. Antibiotics 2023, 12, 1260.
Abstract
Helicobacter pylori is a gastric pathogen that infects nearly half of the global population and is recognized as a group 1 carcinogen by the Word Health Organization. The global rise in antibiotic resistance has increased clinical challenges in treating H. pylori infections. Biofilm growth has been proposed to contribute to H. pylori’s chronic colonization of the host stomach, treatment failures, and the eventual development of gastric diseases. Several components of H. pylori have been identified to promote biofilm growth, and several of these may also facilitate antibiotic tolerance, including the extracellular matrix, outer membrane proteins, the coccoid morphology, modulated metabolism, efflux pumps, and virulence factors. Recent developments in therapeutic approaches targeting H. pylori biofilm have shown that synthetic compounds, such as small molecule drugs and plant-derived compounds, are effective at eradicating H. pylori biofilms. These combined topics highlight the necessity for biofilm-based research in H. pylori, to improve current H. pylori targeted therapeutic approaches and alleviate relative public health burden. In this review we discuss recent discoveries that have decoded the life cycle of H. pylori biofilms and current biofilm targeted treatment strategies.
Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology
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