Relationship between Helicobacter priori iceA, cagA, and vacA status and clinical outcome: Studies in four different countries

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2274-2279

  Yamaoka, Yoshio ^a,b,e   Kodama, Tadashi ^b   Gutierrez, Oscar ^c   Kim, Jong G ^d   Kashima, Kei ^b   Graham, David Y ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COLOMBIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ATROPHY; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH TUMOR;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; ICE NUCLEATION PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VACA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ATROPHY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032587923     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.7.2274-2279.1999     Document Type: Article

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