| helicobacter infection in dogs and cats: facts and fiction. | the discovery of the spiral bacterium helicobacter pylori and its causative role in gastric disease in humans has brought a dramatic change to gastroenterology. although spiral bacteria have been known for more than a century to infect the stomachs of dogs and cats, recent research has been conducted mainly in the wake of interest in h. pylori. h. pylori has not been found in dogs and only very rarely in cats and zoonotic risk is minimal. a variety of other helicobacter spp. can infect the stoma ... | 2000 | 10772482 |