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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Microb Pathog. 2008 Mar 27;45(1):18–24. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2008.02.003

Table II.

Association between hepatic infection ability and urease activity in enterohepatic helicobacters

Non-gastric Helicobacter Taxona Primary/Secondary site Urease
H. bilis Intestine/Liver +
H. hepaticus Intestine/Liver +
H. marmotae Intestine/Liver +
H. mastomyrinus Intestine/Liver +
H. muridarum Intestine/Stomach +
H. muricola Intestine +
H. rappini b Intestine +
H. trogontum Intestine +
H. canadensis Intestine -
H. canis Intestine -
H. cholecystus Gallbladder -
H. cinaedi Intestine -
H. fennelliae Intestine -
H. gammani Intestine -
H. mesocricetorum Intestine -
H. pullorum Intestine -
H. pametensis Intestine -
H. rodentium Intestine -
H. typhlonius Intestine -
a

Enterohepatic Helicobacter species with known colonization sites are listed; the data are summarized from two recently published book chapters [3, 32] .

b

Formerly regarded as ‘Flexispera rappini’; now sub-grouped into 10 taxa.