Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer in Croatia

Cancer Letters

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 9-15

  Babus, Vladimir ^a   Strnad, Marija ^b   Presecki, Vladimir ^a   Katicic, Mirjana ^c   Kalinic, Smilja ^a   Balija, Melita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

^c University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Association; Gastric cancer; Helicobacter pylori infections; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STATISTICS; CROATIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032513084     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00446-1     Document Type: Article

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