Helicobacter pylori and cagA and vacA gene status in children from Brazil with chronic gastritis

Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 166-172

  Lobo Gatti, L ^a,b   Agostinho Jn , F ^a   De Labio R ^a   Balbo Piason, F ^a   Carlos Da Silva, L ^c   Fagundez De Queiroz, V ^c   Peres, C A ^b   Barbieri, D ^d   De Arruda Cardoso Smith, M ^b   Marques Payao S L ^a,b,e  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE MARÍLIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FAMEMA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Oral Universidade do Sagrado

Author keywords

Biopsy based diagnosis; Cag A; Chronic gastritis; Dyspeptic children; Helicobacter pylori; Polymerase chain reaction; VacA alleles

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UREASE; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAZIL; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPEPSIA; ENZYME ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAZIL; CHILD; DNA PRIMERS; GASTRITIS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 10744230710     PISSN: 15918890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10238-003-0021-0     Document Type: Article

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