Is the string test a useful alternative to gastroscopy with biopsy for H. pylori identification?;¿Es el enterotest una alternativa válida a la gastroscopia con biopsias para la detección de H. pylori?

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 542-549

  Del Pozo Garcia A J ^a   Gisbert, Javier P ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GUADALAJARA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^c Playa de Mojacar   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; GELATIN; NALIDIXIC ACID;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERADICATION THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOUTHWASH; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRING SIGN; UREA BREATH TEST; BIOPSY; GASTRITIS; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCAPSULE;

BIOPSY; CAPSULES; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33750124224     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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