Gastrointestinal symptoms and helicobacter pylori infection in school-age children residing in porto torres, sardinia, italy

Helicobacter

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 369-373

  Dore, Maria P ^a,b   Fanciulli, Giuseppe ^a   Tomasi, Paolo A ^a   Realdi, Giuseppe ^c   Delitala, Giuseppe ^a   Graham, David Y ^b   Malaty, Hoda M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Diarrhea; Halitosis; Helicobacter pylori; Sero epidemiology; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HALITOSIS; HEARTBURN; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; ITALY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 84866281724     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: 15235378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-5378.2012.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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