Is it difficult to eradicate Helicobacter pylori from dental plaque by triple therapy?
The high coexisting infection rate of H. pylori in both stomach and dental plaque implies that dental plaque can serve as another reservoir of H. pylori. H. pylori in dental plaque was hardly eradicated by triple therapy. Dental plaque may be a potential source for recrudescence of gastric infection after successful systemic therapy.
Severe AD is accompanied by expansion of skin-homing TH2/TC2 and TH22/TC22 subsets with lower TH1/TC1 frequencies. These data create a critical basis for studying alterations in immune activation in adults and pediatric patients with AD.