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Introduction: In addition to Helicobacter pylori, non-Helicobacter pylori helicobacters (NHPHs) have been diagnosed in the humans stomach that caused gastrointestinal diseases. This study aimed to evaluate the coinfection of H. pylori with NHPHs species in patients with gastric disorders in Iran.
 
Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 421 gastric biopsies form dyspeptic patients, who did not receive any treatment for H. pylori. The samples were divided into H. pylori-infected and NHPHs-infected groups, based on the rapid urease test, histological analysis of biopsies, and genotyping. After DNA extraction, genotyping of samples was performed to detect H. pylori and NHPHs with PCR of encoding genes fragments for urease A (ure A), urease B (ure B) and urease AB (ure AB).
 
Findings: The results of the present study revealed that  57 patients (19%) had coinfection H. pylori with one of the NHPHs,10 patients (3.3%) has coinfection of H. pylori with NHPHs for H. suis,22 patients (7.3%) had coinfection of H. pylori with NHPHs H. salomonis,17 patients(5.7%) had coinfection of H. pylori with NHPHs for H. heilmannii (5.7%) ,and  8 patients (2.7%) had Coinfection of H. pylori with NHPHs for H. felis.
 
Discussion& Conclusions: Based on the results of the current study, it can be conclude that difficulties and failures in the treatment of H.pylori is probably due to the coinfection of H.pylori with NHPHs species ;however,  this conclusion requires further investigations.Additionally,in coinfection H. pylori with NHPHs, H. salomonis was found to be the most prevalent in Iranian patients with gastric disorders.
 

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Introduction: Gastritis is one of the most common diseases affecting the stomach. Helicobacter pylori infection could lead to DNA damage in gastric epithelial cells, followed by error-prone DNA repair pathways that increase the accumulation of damage at the site of DNA double-stranded breaks, exacerbate genome instability, and facilitate the emergence of gastric cancer. This study aimed to examine the expression level of ATM, POLM, and TP53 genes involving in the DNA Damage Response and the cell cycle arrest in the gastric precancerous stage.
 
Materials & Methods: Among 180 gastric biopsy specimens, 30 samples taken from patients with moderate chronic gastritis infected by H. Pylori were regarded as the case group, and 30 other samples taken from non-infected patients with mild chronic gastritis were regarded as control. Following that, RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis was performed. Afterward, the expression levels of ATM, POLM, and TP53 genes were evaluated by the Real-Time PCR method.
Ethics code: 98-02-27-43392
 
Findings: The ATM, POLM, and TP53 genes in the cases showed a 4.07, 3.35, and 5.13 increase in the gene expression at the transcriptional level, compared to the controls.
 
Discussion & Conclusions: In general, ATM, POLM, and TP53 genes showed a higher increased expression level in the case group, compared to the controls, which might indicate the activation of noted genes after H. pylori infection. This may subsequently activate the error-prone DNA repair and non-homologous recombination pathways.