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Molecular epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori: separation of H. pylori from East Asian and non-Asian countries.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Feb 2000
Yamaoka Y, Osato M S, Sepulveda A R, Gutierrez O, Figura N, Kim J G, Kodama T, Kashima K, Graham D Y
Abstract excerpt
The predominant H. pylori strain circulating among geographic locations differs with regard to the genomic structure. This study determined whether structural subtypes of the cagA 3' repeat region could be used to identify the population of origin of H. pylori isolates. We examined 600 cagA-positive H. pylori (Colombia, 100; USA, 100; France, 100; Canada, 20; Italy, 20; Korea, 100; Japan, 100; Hong Kong, 20;...
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