Structure of cag pathogenicity island in Japanese Helicobacter pylori isolates

Gut

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 336-341

  Maeda, S ^a   Yoshida, H ^a   Ikenoue, T ^a   Ogura, K ^a   Kanai, F ^a   Kato, N ^a   Shiratori, Y ^a   Omata, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Helicobacter pylori; Japanese; Pathogenicity island

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 8; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0033018042     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.44.3.336     Document Type: Article

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