Letters to the editor: Relationship between J-Western CagA subtype and the vacA m2 region of Helicobacter pylori

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3033-3034

  Shiota, Seiji ^a   Matsunari, Osamu ^a   Yamaoka, Yoshio ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAGA GENE; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LETTER; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACA GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; VACA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 77955451581     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00983-10     Document Type: Letter

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