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Genotyping analysis of Helicobacter pylori using multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeats analysis in five regions of China and Japan.
BMC microbiology - 3 Sept 2011
Guo Chunliang, Liao Yaling, Li Yan, Duan Jun, Guo Ying, Wu Yuqian, Cui Yujun, Sun Hongwu, Zhang Jinyong, Chen Bing, Zou Quanming, Guo Gang
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BACKGROUND: H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori) is the major causative agent of chronic active gastritis. The population of H. pylori shows a high genomic variability among isolates. And the polymorphism of repeat-units of genomics had participated the important process of evolution. Its long term colonization of the stomach caused different clinical outcomes, which may relate to the high degree of genetic variation...
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