Diagnostic tests for childhood helicobacter pylori infection: Invasive, noninvasive or both?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 482-484

  Oderda, Giuseppina ^a   Rapa, Anna ^a   Bona, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

BREATH ANALYSIS; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BREATH TESTS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18144396926     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: 15364801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200411000-00006     Document Type: Editorial

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