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Mixed infections of Helicobacter pylori: tissue tropism and histological significance.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2009
Sheu S-M, Sheu B-S, Lu C-C, Yang H-B, Wu J-J
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Mixed infections with Helicobacter pylori facilitate interstrain gene transfer and the maintenance of genetic diversity for adaptation to the gastric environment, but whether mixed infections with histological significance and tissue tropism occur in the human stomach is still unclear. Helicobacter pylori was isolated from the antrum and the corpus of 30 dyspeptic patients. Four to eight colonies were randomly...
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