In a world of black and white, helicobacter pylori is gray

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 695-697

  Blaser, Martin J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUMOR;

GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PEPTIC ULCER; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033586489     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-130-8-199904200-00019     Document Type: Article

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