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| A small hard painless ulceration at the site of initial exposure to the bacterium |
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| Lining of mostly endodermal origin that line cavities exposed to the external environment |
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| Sexually Transmitted Infection |
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| Nonactive virus which is in a dormant state within a cell |
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| Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) |
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| A condition which develops when the reflux of the stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications |
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| Symptoms that adversely affect the individual’s well being |
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| Includes individuals with troublesome esophageal symptoms without evidence of esophageal injury |
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| Initiate lifestyle changes and gradually increase pharmacologic intervention until symptom improvement |
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| Initiate lifestyle changes and initiate potent antiscretory agents for rapid symptom control. In a stepwise manner decrease intervention until symptoms breakthrough, indicating the threshold for symptom control |
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| Disease of the upper GI tract characterized by mucosal damage caused by pepsin and gastric acid secretion |
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| Detects active H. pylori infection by testing for urease activity; urease is metabolized to ammonia and bicarbonate, producing a change in pH that leads to pH sensitive change in color |
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| Detects active H. pylori infection by urease identification; in the presence of infection ingestion of radiolabeled urea results in labeled CO2 which can be measured in expired breath |
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| Included individuals with GERD symptoms, with GERD as a likely contributing etiology but is seldom the sole cause |
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| Key risk factor for the development of PUD, gastric adenocarcinoma, and primary B-cell lymphoma of the stomach |
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| Hormone that stimulates secretion of bicarbonate-containing solution by pancreas and liver |
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| Precursor to pepsin that is secreted by the chief cells and converts to pepsin in an acidic environment |
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| On-demand or self-directed therapy |
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| Individuals self treat symptoms as they need to |
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| An alarm symptom of GERD characterized by difficulty swallowing |
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