Greek and Israeli patterns of helicobacter pylori infection and their association with glaucoma: Similarities or diversities?

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 503-504

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Grigoriadis, Nikolaos ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Tzilves, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL DAMAGE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GLAUCOMA; GOLD STANDARD; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; ISRAEL; LETTER; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; TH1 CELL; TISSUE INJURY; UREA BREATH TEST; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BLOOD; BREATH ANALYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BREATH TESTS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; ISRAEL;

EID: 58149121180     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e318189159c     Document Type: Letter

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