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Fine-structure molecular typing of Irish Helicobacter pylori isolates and their genetic relatedness to strains from four different continents.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2003
Carroll Ian M, Ahmed Niyaz, Beesley Sarah M, Khan Aleem A, Ghousunnissa Sheikh, Moráin Colm A O, Smyth Cyril J
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of 74 Irish Helicobacter pylori isolates was performed at four different loci (vacA signal sequence and mid-region, insertion-deletion polymorphisms at the 3' end of the cag pathogenicity island, and cagA). The predominant vacA alleles and insertion-deletion motifs suggest an ancestral...
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