Is the coccoid form of Helicobacter pylori viable and transmissible?

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 547-548

  Chen, Tseng Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CARCINOMA; VOMITING;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 13444291684     PISSN: 17264901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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