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Helicobacter pylori and cagA and vacA gene status in children from Brazil with chronic gastritis.
Clinical and experimental medicine - 1 Nov 2003
Lobo Gatti L, Agostinho Jn F, De Lábio R, Balbo Piason F, Carlos Da Silva L, Fagundez De Queiroz V, Peres C A, Barbieri D, De Arruda Cardoso Smith M, Marques Payão S L
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori has been shown to be strongly associated with chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulceration, and is a risk factor for gastric carcinoma. Histology, urease, culture, and polymerase chain reaction have been employed as for H. pylori diagnostic methods, pre and post treatment or during follow-up of dyspeptic adult individuals referred for endoscopy. In order to obtain a more-sensitive and...
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