Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin and its allelic mosaicism as a predictive marker for Iranian dyspeptic patients

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-5

  Mohammadi, M ^a   Oghalaie, A ^a   Mohajerani, N ^a   Massarrat, S ^b   Nasiri, M ^c   Bennedsen, M ^d   Colding, H ^e   Andersen, L P ^d  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dyspepsia; Helicobacter pylori; Iran; Marker; Moyen orient

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOTOXIN; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN VACA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DNA EXTRACTION; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSAICISM; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SCREENING TEST; ULCER;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOSAICISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0038440603     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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