Article
Isolation and genotyping of Helicobacter pylori from untreated municipal wastewater.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2002
Lu Yingzhi, Redlinger Thomas E, Avitia Raquel, Galindo Adriana, Goodman Karen
Abstract excerpt
For this study, we isolated Helicobacter pylori from wastewater by a series of steps beginning with immunomagnetic separation and cell culture. After Gram staining and three standard microbial tests, the 16S rRNA sequences of a total of 23 out of 37 putative H. pylori isolates were verified by PCR. Eleven H. pylori isolates were genotyped and fell into four vacA classes: those with the vacA allelic variants s1a...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
