Article
Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori vacA genotypes in Iranian patients with peptic ulcer disease.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Nov 2009
Salehi Zivar, Abadi Ali Saber Hossein, Ismail Patimah B T, Kqueen Cheah Yoke, Jelodar Mohammad Halimi, Kamalidehghan Behnam
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori is the major cause of active chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers in humans and has been linked to gastric carcinoma and lymphoma. The vacuolating cytotoxin vacA and cag pathogenicity island (cag PAI) are two identified virulence factors that are considered to have an important role in the pathogenesis of H. pylori infection. The aim of this study is to investigate the H. pylori vacA alleles in...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Proteins
- Female
- Genotype
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Iran
- Male
- Middle Aged
