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Occurence of resistance mutation and clonal expansion in Helicobacter pylori multiple-strain infection: a potential risk in clarithromycin-based therapy.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jun 1999
Enroth H, Björkholm B, Engstrand L
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In a previous study, a patient was shown by means of DNA fingerprinting to be infected with different Helicobacter pylori strains before and after clarithromycin treatment. The strain isolated before treatment was susceptible (ClaS), whereas the strain isolated after 3 months of treatment was resistant (ClaR). Eighty H. pylori colonies from primary isolates were analyzed by DNA fingerprinting and restriction...
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