Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a flagellated, microaerophilic, spiral gram-type bacterium, considered the main cause of chronic and atrophic gastritis, peptic ulcer, as well as gastric lymphoma and gastric carcinoma. Its importance is due to the fact that it causes infections in the digestive system, which in turn is mainly responsible for damage to the gastric mucosa, since this bacterium, by supporting the pH of gastric acid, generates an adaptive malformation of the mucosa for its insertion and the survival mortality of the same, causing different atrophies and ulcers in the stomach wall of the human being in the process of adapting to the gastric environment. It affects the general population, regardless of gender or age, it is believed that it is acquired during childhood and the symptoms appear later. In 1982, it was discovered by scientists Warren and Marshall, who found that this bacterium damages the wall of the gastroduodenal mucosa, generating an infection that, if not treated in time, can cause irreversible changes in the homeostasis of the digestive system. That is why a timely intervention in its diagnosis with the different techniques and existing tests for its detection, in addition to knowing how it spreads (transmission routes), could avoid certain types of conditions or pathologies that accompany this infection that are harmful. for the body, as well as knowing the importance that it is not a bacterium that should be taken lightly and leads to treatment with special drugs.
