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Helicobacter pylori genotyping from positive CLOtests in patients with duodenal ulcer.
Revista do Hospital das Clinicas - 1 Jan 2000
Mattar R, Laudanna A A
Abstract excerpt
Even though the seroprevalence of H. pylori may be high in the normal population, a minority develops peptic ulcer. Colonization of the gastric mucosa by more pathogenic vacA strains of H. pylori seems to be associated with enhanced gastric inflammation and duodenal ulcer. H. pylori genotyping from positive CLOtests was developed to determine the vacA genotypes and cagA status in 40 duodenal ulcer patients and...
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