Helicobacter pylori: what schemes of eradication are essential today?

Abstract

Current approaches to treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, basic international recommendations, problems of growing H. pylori resistance to antibiotics are reviewed. Much attention is given to prospects of new eradication schemes, for example combinations based on bismuth tripotassium dicitrate and successive treatment schedules.

Keywords

• review
• antihelicobacter therapy
• resistance to antibiotics
• bismuth
• successive therapy