Diversity of VacA intermediate region among Helicobacter pylori strains from several regions of the world

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 690-696

  Chung, Christine ^a   Olivares, Asalia ^a   Torres, Eugenia ^b   Yilmaz, Ozlem ^c   Cohen, Henry ^b   Perez Perez, Guillermo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS   (Uruguay)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN; NUCLEASE S1; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; URUGUAY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 77749312943     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01815-09     Document Type: Article

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