Article
Differences in virulence markers between Helicobacter pylori strains from Iraq and those from Iran: potential importance of regional differences in H. pylori-associated disease.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2008
Hussein Nawfal R, Mohammadi Marjan, Talebkhan Yeganeh, Doraghi Masoumeh, Letley Darren P, Muhammad Merdan K, Argent Richard H, Atherton John C
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulceration and gastric adenocarcinoma; the latter is common in Iran but not in Iraq. We hypothesized that more virulent H. pylori strains may be found in Iran than in Iraq and so compared established and newly described virulence factors in strains from these countries. We studied 59 unselected dyspeptic patients from Iran and 49 from Iraq. cagA was found in similar proportions...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Iran