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Can bacterial virulence factors predict antibiotic resistant Helicobacter pylori infection?
World journal of gastroenterology - 7 Mar 2018
Brennan Denise E, Dowd Colin, O'Morain Colm, McNamara Deirdre, Smith Sinéad M
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AIM: To evaluate the association between virulence factor status and antibiotic resistance in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-infected patients in Ireland. METHODS: DNA was extracted from antral and corpus biopsies obtained from 165 H. pylori-infected patients. Genotyping for clarithromycin and fluoroquinolone-mediating mutations was performed using the Genotype HelicoDR assay. cagA and vacA genotypes were...
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