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Pyrosequencing assay to rapidly detect clarithromycin resistance mutations in Canadian Helicobacter pylori isolates.
Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie - 1 Sept 2009
Slinger R, Yan L, Chan F, Forward K, Cooper-Lesins G, Best L, Haldane D, Veldhuyzen van Zanten S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations at positions 2142 or 2143 in the twocopy 23S ribosomal RNA gene of Helicobacter pylori are highly predictive of in vitro clarithromycin resistance and failure of clarithromycin-containing treatment regimens. OBJECTIVE: To design an assay to rapidly detect these mutations using rapid polymerase chain reaction and pyrosequencing, a novel method of 'sequencing by synthesis', and to test this...
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