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Epidemiological link between gastric disease and polymorphisms in VacA and CagA.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2010
Jang Sungil, Jones Kathleen R, Olsen Cara H, Joo Young Min, Yoo Yun-Jung, Chung In-Sik, Cha Jeong-Heon, Merrell D Scott
Abstract excerpt
Gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric cancer are a few of the diverse disease manifestations that have been shown to be associated with infection by Helicobacter pylori. Why some individuals develop more severe forms of disease remains largely unknown. In this study, 225 South Korean strains were genotyped for vacA and then analyzed to determine if particular genotypes varied across disease state, sex, or...
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