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Detection of Helicobacter pylori by phenotypic and genotypic methods.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jun 2010
Fonseca Tesiê L, Moraes Ernani P, Juliano Carlos R, Silva Ana M, Scaini Carlos J, Mendoza-Sassi Raul A, Silva Pedro E A
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: This research evaluated the utilization of a urease in-house test, culture and molecular method (ureA PCR) as a diagnostic tool for Helicobacter pylori infection. Furthermore, we assessed the presence of the cagA gene in the specimens and in isolated strains that were positive for ureA by PCR positive. RESULTS: Sensitivity and specificity, respectively, were 100 and 95.8% for the urease in-house test 93.3...
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