Journal
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 376-396Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1040841X.2021.1975643
Keywords
Helicobacter pylori; antibiotic resistance; alternative treatments
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- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) [UIDB/04469/2020, PTDC/SAU-PUB/29182/2017, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029182]
- FCT PhD grant [SFRH/BD/146496/2019]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/146496/2019, PTDC/SAU-PUB/29182/2017] Funding Source: FCT
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H. pylori infection treatment faces challenges due to antibiotic resistance, leading to the development of alternative strategies like probiotics, antimicrobial peptides, and photodynamic therapy. Human vaccine development remains a major challenge, while natural products show potential against H. pylori, requiring further clinical studies.
Helicobacter pylori is the major component of the gastric microbiome of infected individuals and one of the aetiological factors of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. The increasing resistance to antibiotics worldwide has made the treatment of H. pylori infection a challenge. As a way to overhaul the efficacy of currently used H. pylori antibiotic-based eradication therapies, alternative treatment strategies are being devised. These include probiotics and prebiotics as adjuvants in H. pylori treatment, antimicrobial peptides as alternatives to antibiotics, photodynamic therapy ingestible devices, microparticles and nanoparticles applied as drug delivery systems, vaccines, natural products, and phage therapy. This review provides an updated synopsis of these emerging H. pylori control strategies and discusses the advantages, hurdles, and challenges associated with their development and implementation. An effective human vaccine would be a major achievement although, until now, projects regarding vaccine development have failed or were discontinued. Numerous natural products have demonstrated anti-H. pylori activity, mostly in vitro, but further clinical studies are needed to fully disclose their role in H. pylori eradication. Finally, phage therapy has the potential to emerge as a valid alternative, but major challenges remain, namely the isolation of more H. pylori strictly virulent bacterio(phages).
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