Introduction / JeanMarie Houghton -- Helicobacter pylori: an overview / Jennifer M. Noto, Richard M. Peek -- Perspectives on methodology for in vitro culture of Helicobacter pylori / Timothy L. Cover -- Successful culture techniques for Helicobacter species : general culture techniques for Helicobacter pylori / Jeannette M. Whitmire, D. Scott Merrell -- Successful culture techniques for Helicobacter species: establishing H. pylori cultures from infected rodents / Jeannette M. Whitmire, D. Scott Merrell -- Successful culture techniques for Helicobacter species: verification of Helicobacter identity using 16s rRNA gene sequence analysis / Jeannette M. Whitmire, D. Scott Merrell -- The Helicobacter pylori cag pathogenicity island / Jennifer M. Noto, Richard M. Peek -- Genetic manipulation of a naturally competent bacterium, Helicobacter pylori / Jennifer M. Noto, Richard M. Peek -- A method for short-term culture of human gastric epithelial cells to study the effects of Helicobacter pylori / Marina Leite, Ceu Figueiredo -- Cell culture-based assays to test for bacterial adherence and internalization / Deepa Raju, David Rizzuti, Nicola L. Jones -- Cell culture assays to evaluate bacterial toxicity and virulence / Deepa Raju, David Rizzuti, Nicola L. Jones -- Rodent models of Helicobacter infection, inflammation and disease / Songhua Zhang, Steven F. Moss -- Bacterial culture and inoculation of mice (simple infection) / Brian M. Gray, Kathryn A. Eaton -- Adoptive transfer of splenocytes to immunocompromised mice / Brian M. Gray, Kathryn A. Eaton -- Isolation of gastric lamina propria leukocytes / Brian M. Gray, Kathryn A. Eaton -- Delayed-type hypersensitivity determination / Brian M. Gray, Kathryn A. Eaton -- Necropsy, blood, tissue collection and mRNA isolation for detection of host cytokine gene expression / Brian M. Gray, Kathryn A. Eaton -- Animal models of Helicobacter-induced disease: methods to successfully infect the mouse / Nancy S. Taylor, James G. Fox -- Verifying and quantifying Helicobacter pylori infection status of research mice / Mark T Whary, Zhongming Ge, James G. Fox -- Mouse models of Helicobacter-induced gastric cancer: use of cocarcinognes / Richard L. Ferrero, John E. Wilson, Phil Sutton -- Gastric Helicobacter spp. in animal models: pathogenesis and modulation by extragastric coinfections / Arlin B. Rogers -- Histologic scoring of gastritis and gastric cancer in mouse models / Arlin B. Rogers -- Innate immune responses to Helicobacter pylori infection: an overview / Milan K. Patel, Melanie I. Trombly, Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones -- Methods for in vivo and in vitro analysis of innate immune responses to Helicobacter pylori infection / Milan K. Patel ... [et al.] -- Techniques for following labeled cells in vivo: use of X/Y FISH, techniques to optimize fluorescent detection, and beta-galactosidase detection / Michael Craig, Michael Schumacher, Yana Zavros -- In vivo measurement of Helicobacter pylori infection / Marjan Mohammadi ... [et al.].