Active infection with Helicobacter pylori in healthy couples

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-95

  Brenner, H ^a   Rothenbacher, D ^a   Bode, G ^a   Dieudonne P ^a   Adler, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREATH TESTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032998414     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001964     Document Type: Article

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