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Helicobacter pylori genotypes determine risk of non-cardia gastric cancer and intestinal- or diffuse-type GC in Ardabil: A very high-risk area in Northwestern Iran.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Jun 2017
Abdi Esmat, Latifi-Navid Saeid, Zahri Saber, Yazdanbod Abbas, Safaralizadeh Reza
Abstract excerpt
Frequency of the Helicobacter pylori vacA gene polymorphism and its association with gastric cancer (GC) was assessed in Ardabil, a very high-risk area in Northwestern Iran. We determined the presence of the H. pylori 16S rDNA gene and the vacA s-, m-, i-, and d-region genotypes in DNA from fresh gastric biopsies. Patients with GC were classified based on both the anatomic site and the histopathologic type of...
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