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Estimation of vacuolating cytotoxin secreted by different strains of Helicobacter pylori using bead enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay & its correlation with bacterial genotype.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Dec 2001
Datta S, Kurazono H, Chattopadhyay S, Chowdhury A, Chaudhuri S, Bhattacharya S K, Mukhopadhyay A K, Berg D E, Hirayama T, Nair G B
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: A highly sensitive bead enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was applied for the quantitative determination of vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) released in the culture supernatant of 40 well characterized Helicobacter pylori strains in order to clarify the significance of allelic combination of the vacA gene as the predictor of the level of toxin secretion and also to determine the most...
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