Regional variation among vacA alleles of Helicobacter pylori in China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1942-1945

  Wang, Jingtong ^a,b   Van Doorn, Leen Jan ^f   Robinson, Philip A ^a   Ji, Xuhuai ^d,g   Wang, Dong ^a,d   Wang, Yu ^c   Ge, Lianying ^e   Telford, John L ^h   Crabtree, Jean E ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Gastroenterology Department   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Delft Diagnostic Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; CAGA GENE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE HYBRIDIZATION LINE PROBE ASSAY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VACA GENE;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PEPTIC ULCER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0037952778     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.1942-1945.2003     Document Type: Article

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