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Helicobacter pylori (HP) plays an important role in the development of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, adenocarcinoma, malt lymphoma. The review presents modern information about epidemiology, genetics and microbiology of this bacteria, factors of colonization of the gastric mucosa and the development of HP associated diseases, depending on the intraspecific diversity of strains and the presence of pathogenicity of HP, genetic predisposition, state of local and general immune factors in the protection of macrocorrhnism, changes gastrointestinal tract.