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Arch Dis Child 2004;89:1037-1038 doi:10.1136/adc.2003.045880
  • Community child health, public health, and epidemiology

Flies and Helicobacter pylori infection

  1. S J Allen1,
  2. J E Thomas2,
  3. N D E Alexander3,
  4. R Bailey1,
  5. P M Emerson1
  1. 1Medical Research Council Laboratories, PO Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia
  2. 2Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
  3. 3Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr S J Allen
    The Clinical School, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK; s.j.allenswansea.ac.uk
  • Accepted 31 March 2004
  • Revised 31 March 2004

Abstract

Houseflies have been proposed to be a reservoir and vector for Helicobacter pylori. We assessed the effect of insecticide spraying in villages in The Gambia on H. pylori infection in young children. Effective control of flies did not prevent infection with H. pylori.

Footnotes

  • We thank Chiron Corporation for generous funding.

  • Conflict of interest: none declared.

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