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Distinctiveness of genotypes of Helicobacter pylori in Calcutta, India.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2000
Mukhopadhyay A K, Kersulyte D, Jeong J Y, Datta S, Ito Y, Chowdhury A, Chowdhury S, Santra A, Bhattacharya S K, Azuma T, Nair G B, Berg D E
Abstract excerpt
The genotypes of 78 strains of Helicobacter pylori from Calcutta, India (55 from ulcer patients and 23 from more-benign infections), were studied, with a focus on putative virulence genes and neutral DNA markers that were likely to be phylogenetically informative. PCR tests indicated that 80 to 90% of Calcutta strains carried the cag pathogenicity island (PAI) and potentially toxigenic vacAs1 alleles of the...
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