High eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori using a four-drug regimen in patients previously treated unsuccessfully

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 906-912

  Tzivras, Michalis ^a   Balatsos, Vasilios ^b   Souyioultzis, Stavros ^a   Tsirantonaki, Maria ^a   Skandalis, Nikolaos ^b   Archimandritis, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amoxicillin; Duodenal ulcer; Helicobacter pylori eradication; Metronidazole; Omeprazole

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BISMUTH CITRATE; METRONIDAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PEPTIC ULCER; ULCER HEALING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0030663688     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(97)80044-6     Document Type: Article

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