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Key importance of the Helicobacter pylori adherence factor blood group antigen binding adhesin during chronic gastric inflammation.
Cancer research - 1 Mar 2001
Prinz C, Schöniger M, Rad R, Becker I, Keiditsch E, Wagenpfeil S, Classen M, Rösch T, Schepp W, Gerhard M
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori has been assigned as a class I carcinogen because of its relation to gastric adenocarcinoma. Chronic H. pylori infection may lead to severe gastritis, glandular atrophy (AT), and intestinal metaplasia (IM). Strains secreting the vacuolating toxin VacA and producing the cytotox...
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