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Helicobacter pylori genotypes, host factors, and gastric mucosal histopathology in peptic ulcer disease.
Human pathology - 1 Mar 2001
Tham K T, Peek R M, Atherton J C, Cover T L, Perez-Perez G I, Shyr Y, Blaser M J
Abstract excerpt
From 183 patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, we used antral and corpus gastric biopsies for bacterial culture and histopathologic examination, blood samples to detect immunoglobulin G antibodies against Helicobacter pylori, and H pylori genomic DNA to analyze cytotoxin-associated gene A (cagA) and vacuolating cytotoxin (vacA) genotypes. As expected, among H pylori biopsy-positive patients, those...
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