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Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin and its allelic mosaicism as a predictive marker for Iranian dyspeptic patients.
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) - 1 Mar 2003
Mohammadi M, Oghalaie A, Mohajerani N, Massarrat S, Nasiri M, Bennedsen M, Colding H, Andersen L P
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori infects the majority of the population in the developing countries. However, the rate of gastrointestinal complications such as peptic ulcers and gastric malignancies has no parallel with the infection. In order to determine whether cytotoxin (vacA) and its allelic polymorphism can serve as screening markers for such a population, H. pylori strains were isolated from one hundred and thirty two...
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