Diagnosis of Helicobacter priori infection from antral biopsies in pediatric patients is urease test that reliable?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1233-1237

  Madani, Shailender ^a   Rabah, Raja ^a   Tolia, Vasundhara ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

CLO test; H. pylori density; H. pylori gastritis

Indexed keywords

UREASE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTRITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREASE;

EID: 0033624108     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005574608074     Document Type: Article

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