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Virulence and colonization-associated properties of Helicobacter pylori isolated from children and adolescents.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1998
Celik J, Su B, Tirén U, Finkel Y, Thoresson A C, Engstrand L, Sandstedt B, Bernander S, Normark S
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori isolates from 32 children and adolescents were characterized with respect to putative virulence and colonization-associated properties. Only 3 of the subjects had duodenal ulcer. All but 2 of the remaining 29 had various degrees of chronic gastric inflammation. No significant correlation between degree of inflammation and presence of the cag-pathogenicity island, cytotoxin production, vacA...
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