Helicobacter hepaticus

Helicobacter hepaticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Epsilon Proteobacteria
Order:	Campylobacterales
Family:	Helicobacteraceae
Genus:	Helicobacter
Species:	H. hepaticus
Binomial name
Helicobacter hepaticus Fox et al., 1994

Helicobacter hepaticus is a bacterium in the Helicobacteraceae family, Campylobacterales order.

It has a spiral shape and bipolar, single, sheathed flagellum, and was first isolated from the livers of mice with active, chronic hepatitis. The bacteria also colonized the cecal and colonic mucosae of mice. It elicits persistent hepatitis in mice. It has also been associated with colorectal cancer and other diseases. The Helicobacter hepaticus genome has been sequenced and is 1,799,146 bases long with 1,875 coding sequences.

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