Article
Helicobacter pylori in bottled mineral water: genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties.
BMC microbiology - 12 Mar 2016
Ranjbar Reza, Khamesipour Faham, Jonaidi-Jafari Nematollah, Rahimi Ebrahim
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Up to now, fecal-oral and oral-oral are the most commonly known routes for transmission of H. pylori, therefore, contaminated water can play an important role in transmission of H. pylori to humans. Genotyping using virulence markers of H. pylori is one of the best approaches to study the correlations between H. pylori isolates from different samples. The present research was carried out to study the...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Consumer Product Safety
- Drinking Water
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Mineral Waters
- Seasons
- Water Microbiology
