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My girlfriend has helicobacter pylori. can i also contract it by kissing or engaging in sexual intercourse with her?

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Dr. Jovita Anyanwu answered

Yes: It is transmitted through fecal oral transmission not through sex.

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Answered 11/28/2017

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