Gastric juice polymerase chain reaction: An alternative to histology in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection

Helicobacter

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 159-164

  Basso, Daniela ^a   Navaglia, Filippo ^a   Cassaro, Mauro ^a   Scrigner, Marina ^a   Toma, Andrea ^a   Bo, Nadia Dal ^a   Di Mario, Francesco ^a   Rugge, Massimo ^a   Plebani, Mario ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; COLORING AGENT; PRIMER DNA; UREASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DUODENITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH JUICE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPSY; COLORING AGENTS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUODENITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYLORIC ANTRUM; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; UREASE;

EID: 0030223435     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-5378.1996.tb00031.x     Document Type: Article

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