Article
Helicobacter pylori vacA Genotypes in Chronic Gastritis and Gastric Carcinoma Patients from Macau, China.
Toxins - 5 May 2016
Pinto-Ribeiro Ines, Ferreira Rui M, Batalha Sellma, Hlaing Thazin, Wong Sio In, Carneiro Fatima, Figueiredo Ceu
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori is the major triggering factor for gastric carcinoma, but only a small proportion of infected patients develop this disease. Differences in virulence observed among H. pylori strains, namely in the vacuolating cytotoxin vacA gene, may contribute to this discrepancy. Infection...
Topics
- Aged
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- China
- Chronic Disease
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Gastritis
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Stomach Neoplasms
- Virulence