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High frequency of hopQ genotypes among Iranian Helicobacter pylori clinical isolates.
Le infezioni in medicina - 1 Jun 2017
Dara Mahintaj, Khashei Reza, Dehghani Behzad
Abstract excerpt
Different virulence factors are involved in Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis. H. pylori outer membrane proteins are a family of virulence factors that have diverse members. HopQ (H. pylori outer membrane protein) is the largest of them that contains types I and II alleles. The role of hopQ is not exactly known, but it has been considered in H. pylori adhesion and colonization. The aim of this study was to...
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