Helicobacter pylori genotypes in Lithuanian patients with chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcer

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 449-454

  Miciulevičiene, Jolanta ^a   Čalkauskas, Henrikas ^b   Jonaitis, Laimas ^a   Kiudelis, Gediminas ^a   Tamošiunas, Vytas ^c   Praškevičius, Antanas ^a   Kupčinskas, Limas ^a   Berg, Duglas ^d  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b Medical Center Euroclinics   (Lithuania)

^c VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cagPAI; Chronic gastritis; Duodenal ulcer; Helicobacter pylori; iceA; vacA; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; ICE NUCLEATION PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VACA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DUODENUM ULCER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LITHUANIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH; VIRULENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DUODENAL ULCER; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; STOMACH; VIRULENCE;

EID: 54749128249     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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