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Analysis of intra-familial transmission of Helicobacter pylori in Japanese families.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2015
Osaki Takako, Konno Mutsuko, Yonezawa Hideo, Hojo Fuhito, Zaman Cynthia, Takahashi Michiko, Fujiwara Shinichi, Kamiya Shigeru
Abstract excerpt
Intra-familial infection is considered to be one of the main routes of transmission for Helicobacter pylori in Japan. We assessed the genomic profiles of H. pylori isolates from family members by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) and identified the original strain infecting the index child. A total of 19 isolates from five families were analysed by MLST using seven housekeeping genes and by random amplification...
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