Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection in Greece: The changing prevalence during a ten-year period and its antigenic profile

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Apostolopoulos, Periklis ^a   Vafiadis Zouboulis, Irene ^a   Tzivras, Michael ^a   Kourtessas, Dimitrios ^a   Katsilambros, Nicolaos ^a   Archimandritis, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 18744411227     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-2-11     Document Type: Article

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