Mixed infection with cagA-positive and cagA-negative strains of Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 98-106

  Fantry, George T ^a,b   Zheng, Qiao Xi ^a   Darwin, Peter E ^a   Rosenstein, Andrew H ^a   James, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAGA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; UREASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER; VIRULENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH ULCER; UREASE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030153925     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-5378.1996.tb00018.x     Document Type: Article

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