Accuracy of diagnostic tests for helicobacter pylori: A reappraisal

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1385-1391

  Calvet, Xavier ^a,f,g,i   SáDelgado, Jordi ^a,f,g   Montserrat, Antonia ^a,f,g   Lario, Sergio ^a,f,g   Ramírez Lázaro, Maria José ^a,f,g   Quesada, Mariela ^a,f,g   Casalots, Alex ^c,f   Suárez, David ^e,f   Campo, Rafel ^a,f,g   Brullet, Enric ^a,f,g   Junquera, Félix ^a,f,g   Sanfeliu, Isabel ^d,f,h   Segura, Ferran ^b,f,h  

^a Digestive Diseases Unit   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

^c Servei de Patologia   (Spain)

^d UDIAT   (Spain)

^e Corporacio Pare Taulf ^*  (Spain)

^f PARC TAULÍ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^h Instituto de Salud Carlos III ^*  (Spain)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSPEPSIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED RADIATION; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREA BREATH TEST; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; FECES; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; UREA;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BIOPSY; BREATH TESTS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREA;

EID: 65549137939     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598198     Document Type: Article

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