Prevalence and risk factors of Helicobacter pylori infection among healthy 3- to 5-year-old Israeli Arab children

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 990-996

  Muhsen, Kh ^a,b   Athamna, A ^b   Athamna, M ^b   Spungin Bialik, A ^a   Cohen, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Meshulash Research and Development Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARAB; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SIBLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ARABS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33748370786     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806006030     Document Type: Article

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