Article
Helicobacter pylori oipA genetic diversity and its associations with both disease and cagA, vacA s, m, and i alleles among Bulgarian patients.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Dec 2011
Markovska Rumyana, Boyanova Lyudmila, Yordanov Daniel, Gergova Galina, Mitov Ivan
Abstract excerpt
Prevalence of outer inflammatory protein (oipA) gene functional status in Helicobacter pylori strains from Southeastern Europe is still unclear. H. pylori strains from 70 symptomatic patients were polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assessed for cagA and vacA types, and oipA gene functional status wa...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bulgaria
- Child
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Male