A Protocol for Isolating Putative Helicobacter pylori from Fecal Specimens and Genotyping using vacA Alleles

Helicobacter

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 561-567

  Liang, Shuwen ^a   Redlinger, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Culturing; Human pathogen; PCR genotyping; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; RNA POLYMERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DNA PURIFICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; UREA BREATH TEST; VACA GENE;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BREATH TESTS; CATALASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; GENTIAN VIOLET; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; OXYGENASES; PHENAZINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0142122389     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5378.2003.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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