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Disease infection caused by helicobacter pylori
Phenotype C0242647|malt lymphoma
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PubMedID- 24799901 helicobacter pylori infection is associated with rare gastric malt lymphoma, which can regress with eradication of the infection, indicating that an infectious agent may be an important cause of some forms of nhl [2].
PubMedID- 22710678 Certain viral infections, including the epstein-barr virus and hiv (aids) virus, are known risk factors for nhl (grulich and vajdic, 2005), and helicobacter pylori infection is strongly associated with malt lymphoma of the stomach (farinha and gascoyne, 2005).
PubMedID- 24319171 Low-grade mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (malt) lymphoma of the stomach, gastric malt lymphoma, is associated with helicobacter pylori infection.
PubMedID- 23767042 Approximately 70% to 90% of gastric malt lymphomas are associated with helicobacter pylori infection.1 and h. pylori eradication can induce complete regressions of gastric malt lymphomas in about 60% to 95% of patients.2,3 some reports suggested that low-grade malt lymphomas can transformed to high-grade diffuse large b-cell lymphomas (dlbcls), which is the important cause of death in patients with gastric malt lymphomas.4,5 we report two cases of dlbcls in the cervical lymph nodes that occurred 10 years and 1.5 years after diagnosing low-grade gastric malt lymphomas.
PubMedID- 24534189 Since then, many studies have linked chronic infection and inflammation with b cell malignancy, most notably in gastric malt lymphoma associated with helicobacter pylori infection (wotherspoon et al., 1993).
PubMedID- 22943012 Conservative antibiotic treatment of stage i malt lymphomas with associated helicobacter pylori infection achieves good clinical outcome with high remission rate.

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