In the remaining nine patients H pylori was successfully eradicated, and endoscopic findings were normal.

Corruption has been successfully eradicated from the upper echelons of government, he said, a claim that is widely acknowledged to be true.

Australia has had three outbreaks of citrus canker, all of which have been successfully eradicated.

They had devastating consequences for the island's seabirds and other native species, but were successfully eradicated in 2001-2002.

Mice have not yet been successfully eradicated, though efforts to do so continue; meanwhile, numbers are kept low with the use of poison bait stations.

Some countries in Europe have successfully eradicated the disease by applying a strict culling policy.

"I would have thought they would have successfully eradicated all that from your brain at Oxford."

Introduced goats have been successfully eradicated from 120 islands worldwide.

The last case of smallpox, the first human disease believed to be successfully eradicated, was diagnosed in 1977.

Whether they become a nuisance species in New Zealand or will be successfully eradicated remains to be seen.