Article
Relationship between cagA-positive Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of gastric cancer: a case control study in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Arquivos de gastroenterologia - 1 Jan 2000
Meine Gilmara Coelho, Rota Cláudia, Dietz Judite, Sekine Setsuo, Prolla João Carlos
Abstract excerpt
CONTEXT: Gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer related death worldwide. Although Helicobacter pylori has been classified as a class I carcinogen, the presence of infection is not a factor that alone is able to lead to gastric cancer, and one of the possible explanations for this is the existence of different strains of H. pylori with different degrees of virulence. OBJECTIVES: To investigate...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adolescent
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Proteins
- Case-Control Studies
- Female
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Male
