Country-specific constancy by age in cagA+ proportion of Helicobacter pylori infections

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 453-456

  Pérez Pérez, Guillermo I ^a   Bhat, Niranjan ^a   Gaensbauer, James ^a   Fraser, Alan ^b   Taylor, David N ^c   Kuipers, Ernst J ^a,d   Zhang, Lian ^e   You, W C ^f   Blaser, Martin J ^a,g  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c US Nav Med Res Inst Detachment ^*  (Peru)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAGA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GASTRITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STOMACH CANCER; THAILAND;

ADULT; AGING; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PERU; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THAILAND;

EID: 1842371434     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970729)72:3<453::AID-IJC13>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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