Conservation of the cag pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori: Associations with vacuolating cytotoxin allele and IS605 diversity

Gastroenterology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1308-1315

  Slater, E ^a   Owen, R J ^a   Williams, M ^a   Pounder, R E ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032714135     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70281-7     Document Type: Article

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