Article
Demonstration of unexpected antibiotic resistance of genotypically identical Helicobacter pylori isolates.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 1998
Dore M P, Osato M S, Kwon D H, Graham D Y, el-Zaatari F A
Abstract excerpt
With use of multiple- and single-colony expansion procedures, the results of susceptibility testing of Helicobacter pylori isolates from patients with duodenal ulcer were assessed by Etest. The H. pylori genotype was assessed by repetitive extragenic palindrome-based polymerase chain reaction (RE...
Topics
- Amoxicillin
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Clarithromycin
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Duodenal Ulcer
- Genotype
- Helicobacter Infections
- Helicobacter pylori
- Humans
- Metronidazole
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Penicillins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction