Helicobacter pylori in the Indonesian Malay's descendants might be imported from other ethnicities.
Ari Fahrial SyamLanggeng Agung WaskitoYudith Annisa Ayu RezkithaRentha Monica SimamoraFauzi YusufKanserina Esthera DanchiAhmad Fuad Bakrynull ArnelisErwin MulyaGontar Alamsyah SiregarTitong SugihartonoHasan MaulahelaDalla DoohanMuhammad MiftahussururYoshio YamaokaPublished in: Gut pathogens (2021)
Even though the ethnic groups live together as a community, we observed an extremely low H. pylori infection rate among Indonesian Malay descendants with no specific Indonesian Malay H. pylori. The results suggest that H. pylori was not originally among these groups and H. pylori was imported from other ethnic groups.