CagA and VacA polymorphisms do not correlate with severity of histopathological lesions in Helicobacter pylori-infected Greek children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2426-2434

  Sgouras, Dionyssios N ^a   Panayotopoulou, Effrosini G ^a   Papadakos, Konstantinos ^a   Martinez Gonzalez, Beatriz ^a   Roumbani, Aikaterini ^b   Panayiotou, Joanna ^b   Vanvliet Constantinidou, Cathy ^b   Mentis, Andreas F ^a   Roma Giannikou, Eleftheria ^b  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CAGA PROTEIN; GLUTAMYLPROLYLISOLEUCYLTYROSYLALANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACUOLATING TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL VACUOLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STOMACH EPITHELIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GREECE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 68549118744     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00159-09     Document Type: Article

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