Detection and typing of the virulence determinants cagA and vacA of Helicobacter pylori directly from biopsy DNA: Are in vitro strains representative of in vivo strains?

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 683-687

  Gunn, Melanie C ^a   Stephens, Jonathan C ^a,b   Stewart, James D ^a   Rathbone, Barrie J ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CagA; Gastric cancer; Helicobacter pylori; Peptic ulcer; VacA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUODENAL ULCER; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031874879     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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