Significance of Helicobacter pylori vacA intermediate region genotyping-a Bulgarian study

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-257

  Yordanov, Daniel ^a   Boyanova, Lyudmila ^a   Markovska, Rumyana ^a   Gergova, Galina ^a   Mitov, Ivan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Helicobacter pylori; Ulcer; VacA alleles; VacA i1; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN; VACUOLATING TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BULGARIAN; CAGA GENE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VACA GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BULGARIA; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867637111     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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