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Detection of Helicobacter pylori virulence-associated genes.
Expert review of molecular diagnostics - 1 Sept 2001
van Doorn L J
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen and persistent colonization of the human gastric mucosa can cause severe gastrointestinal diseases. The bacterium should not be considered as a uniform organism, but as a population of closely related and yet genetically diverse bacteria. Several genes of H. pylori (such as vacA and cagA) have been identified as being virulence-associated and may have important...
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