Otkrytie roli Helicobacter pylori v razvitii ryada zabolevaniy zheludochno-kishechnogo trakta, v pervuyu ochered' khronicheskogo gastrita i yazvennoy bolezni zheludka i 12-perstnoy kishki, stalo nastoyashchim proryvom v gastroenterologii. Dannyy sbornik posvyashchen roli bakteriy roda Helicobacter v patologii cheloveka, preimushchestvenno pri zabolevaniyakh gepatobiliarnoy sistemy. V nem predstavleny novye svedeniya o biologicheskikh svoystvakh bakteriy roda Helicobacter, patogeneticheskikh mekhanizmakh ikh uchastiya v razvitii khronicheskikh vospalitel'nykh zabolevaniy gepatobiliarnoy sistemy, sovremennykh metodakh laboratornoy diagnostiki, a takzhe epidemiologii i mekhanizmakh formirovaniya rezistentnosti k antimikrobnym preparatam i metodakh ee opredeleniya. Chast' statey, voshedshikh v etot sbornik, yavlyaetsya rezul'tatom analiza opublikovannykh rabot po teme khelikobakterioza, drugaya chast' - rezul'tat sobstvennykh issledovaniy. Sbornik prednaznachen dlya vrachey bakteriologov,tsitologov, gastroenterologov. Avtor vyrazhaet nadezhdu, chto dannaya monografiya pomozhet vracham v ikh prakticheskoy deyatel'nosti v voprosakh patogeneza i diagnostiki khelikobakterioza.