The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7360 p434
8 October 2005

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Nobel prize awarded for bacterium link to ulcers

Proving that infection by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, and not stress and lifestyle, causes peptic ulcer disease has won Barry Marshall, of the University of Western Australia, and Robin Warren, formerly a pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital, Australia, the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, it was announced this week.

The pair used technologies widely available to show that both inflammation in the stomach and peptic ulcer disease is a result of infection of the stomach by H pylori.