What causes stomach ulcers
The consensus that no bacteria could survive stomach acid was wrong. Marshall drank a culture of H. pylori to prove it caused gastritis. Ulcers became curable with antibiotics, and the pair won the 2005 Nobel Prize.
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Closed 1982, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren identify Helicobacter pylori.
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