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Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori vacA genotype in Japanese patients with gastric cancer.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Apr 1998
Shimoyama T, Yoshimura T, Mikami T, Fukuda S, Crabtree J E, Munakata A
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To examine the vacA genotypes of Helicobacter pylori strains in Japan and to define whether any specific genotype was associated with gastric cancer. METHODS: The allelic variation of vacA gene was studied using a recently introduced polymerase chain reaction based vacA genotyping system. RESULTS: 80 H pylori strains were isolated from gastric biopsies of 40 patients with gastric cancer and 40 control...
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