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H. pylori infection and genotyping in patients undergoing upper endoscopy at inner city hospitals.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jul 2002
Straus E W, Patel H, Chang J, Gupta R M, Sottile V, Scirica J, Tarabay G, Iyer S, Samuel S, Raffaniello R D
Abstract excerpt
Kings County Hospital (KCH), and St. John's Episcopal Hospital (SJH) are inner-city hospitals in New York City serving predominantly minority populations. Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) serves a predominantly middle-class Caucasian population. We examined H. pylori (HP) infection in patients undergoing upper endoscopy at these hospitals. Two gastric biopsies were obtained from each patient. One biopsy...
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