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Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori cagA, iceA and babA2 alleles in Brazilian patients with upper gastrointestinal diseases.
Acta tropica - 1 Dec 2006
Gatti Luciano Lobo, Módena José Luiz Proença, Payão Spencer Luiz Marques, Smith Marília de Arruda Cardoso, Fukuhara Yara, Módena José Luiz Pimenta, de Oliveira Ricardo Brandt, Brocchi Marcelo
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen associated with gastrointestinal diseases such as gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer (peptic ulcer disease, PUD), and gastric cancer. A number of pathogenic factors have been described for this bacterium, and some of them have been proposed as markers for the prediction of the clinical outcome. However, with the exception of the cag and vacA status, there is...
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