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Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin-associated genotype and gastric precancerous lesions.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 5 Sept 2007
Plummer Martyn, van Doorn Leen-Jan, Franceschi Silvia, Kleter Bernhard, Canzian Federico, Vivas Jorge, Lopez Gladys, Colin Didier, Muñoz Nubia, Kato Ikuko
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with the development of gastric cancer. Although infection with an H. pylori strain containing the cytotoxin-associated (cag A) gene (a marker for a pathogenicity island) may increase the risk of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer, the relationship of variants in pathogenic H. pylori genes to the severity and progression of precancerous lesions is not...
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