Article
Virulence genes and neutral DNA markers of Helicobacter pylori isolates from different ethnic communities of West Bengal, India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2003
Datta Simanti, Chattopadhyay Santanu, Balakrish Nair G, Mukhopadhyay Asish K, Hembram Jabaranjan, Berg Douglas E, Rani Saha Dhira, Khan Asis, Santra Amal, Bhattacharya S K, Chowdhury Abhijit
Abstract excerpt
Virulence-associated genes and neutral DNA markers of Helicobacter pylori strains from the Santhal and Oroan ethnic minorities of West Bengal, India, were studied. These people have traditionally been quite separate from other Indians and differ culturally, genetically, and linguistically from mainstream Bengalis, whose H. pylori strains have been characterized previously. H. pylori was found in each of 49 study...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial
- Ethnicity
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Incidence
- India
- Open Reading Frames
- Phylogeny