Application of a stool antigen test to evaluate the incidence of Helicobacter pylori infection in children and adolescents from Tehran, Iran

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1094-1097

  Falsafi, Tahereh ^a   Valizadeh, Nargess ^a   Sepehr, Shayesteh ^a   Najafi, Mehri ^b  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; FAMILY HISTORY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOOL ANTIGEN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FECES; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 24944529056     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.9.1094-1097.2005     Document Type: Article

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