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We enrolled 32 treatment-na\u00efve patients and 84 patients with refractory\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                      infections, defined as failure of at least two prior eradication attempts. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was conducted for refractory\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                      isolates to assess resistance patterns. Gastric mucosal biopsies and fecal samples were obtained for 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing revealed resistance rates of 96.55% to metronidazole, 77.59% to clarithromycin, 56.90% to levofloxacin, 5.17% to rifampicin, 1.72% to tetracycline, and 0% to amoxicillin and furazolidone. The rates of dual drug and multidrug resistance were 27.59% and 55.17%, respectively. Refractory patients exhibited significant gastric microbiota restructuring, marked by reduced alpha diversity. The refractory group had higher concentrations of pathogens like\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Pseudomonas<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Burkholderia<\/jats:italic>\n                      and lower relative abundances of beneficial bacteria, including\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bifidobacterium<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Blautia<\/jats:italic>\n                      , and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Roseburia<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Levofloxacin-resistant individuals exhibited an amplified abundance of pathogenic\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Veillonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      . The gastric microbial diversity was higher in clarithromycin-resistant patients, with the enrichment of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Micromonospora<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Compared with the single-resistant group, pathogens, such as\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Veillonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Peptostreptococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                      , were increased in the multidrug-resistant group. We also observed perturbations of gut microbiota in refractory\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                      -infected patients, with the predominance of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Streptococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                      and depletion of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bacteroides<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Our findings establish that refractory\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                      infection induces a disruption of gastrointestinal microbiota, highlighting the importance of optimizing first-line regimens to prevent retreatment cycles and the potential benefit of microbiota-modulating strategies in refractory\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                      management.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>\n                        Previous research has demonstrated that\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">H. pylori<\/jats:italic>\n                        eradication therapies can transiently alter gut microbiota. However, the long-term consequences of repeated antibiotic treatments in refractory infections remain unexplored. 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