Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori in Developing Countries

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori is a very common infectious agent worldwide particularly in the developing countries, results from studies from three different sources on this topic have been gathered in this report. The first source stated that there was decreasing in the rate of infection with aging and the infected males were less than the females, results from the second source were almost identical to the first source which is that the rate of infection decreases with aging and the infected females were more than males. While the third source showed an increasing in the rate of infection with aging but agreed with the other sources that the infection in females is more than the males.