Article
Investigation of the association between clinical outcome and the cag pathogenicity-island and other virulence genes of Helicobacter pylori isolates from patients with dyspepsia in Eastern Turkey.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Dec 2013
Ozbey Gokben, Demirel Ulvi, Aygun Cem, Ertas Hasan Basri
Abstract excerpt
The aims of our work were to determine the presence of the cag pathogenicity-island (cag PAI) and other virulence genes of Helicobacter pylori recovered from patients with gastritis and peptic ulcer, and to investigate the correlation of these virulence genes with clinical outcome. The presence o...
Topics
- DNA, Bacterial
- Dyspepsia
- Genetic Variation
- Genomic Islands
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Treatment Outcome
- Turkey
- Virulence Factors