Turkish isolates of Helicobacter pylori belong to the Middle Eastern genotypes [2]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-98

  Baglan, P H ^a   Sarinay, E ^b   Ahmed, K ^b,c   Ozkan, M ^a   Bozday, G ^d   Bozday, A M ^a   Ozden, A ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN; ICEA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

ADULT; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; LETTER; MARKER GENE; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33644858763     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01293.x     Document Type: Letter

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