Analysis of the vacA, cagA, cagE, iceA, and babA2 genes in Helicobacter pylori from sixty-one pediatric patients from the Midwestern United States

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 83-88

  Podzorski, Raymond P ^a   Podzorski, Diane S ^a   Wuerth, Ann ^a   Tolia, Vasundhara ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BABA2 PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN; CAGE PROTEIN; ICEA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BIOPSY; UNITED STATES;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0038511320     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(03)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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