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Diagnosis and genotyping of Helicobacter pylori by polymerase chain reaction of bacterial DNA from gastric juice.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Aug 2005
Datta Simanti, Chattopadhyay Santanu, Chowdhury Abhijit, Santra Amal, Saha Dhira Rani, Ramamurthy T, Bhattacharya Sujit Kumar, Berg Douglas E, Nair G Balakrish, Mukhopadhyay Asish Kumar
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BACKGROUND: Efficient and accurate detection of Helicobacter pylori infection as well as identification of virulence-associated alleles are important for the treatment of gastroduodenal diseases caused by this gastric pathogen. The present study was performed to test the efficiency of gastric juice polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for the rapid detection of H. pylori infection and to determine the bacterial...
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