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Helicobacter Pylori: A Microbe That Survives the Acidic Environment
The helicobacter pylori bacteria can resist being flushed out of your stomach. It has two main mechanisms by which it's able to survive. The first is that they have flagella, protein structures coming off their bodies. They use them not just to swim against the current of peristalsis, but to swim down into the mucus that lines your stomach.