Recovery of helicobacter pylori from gastric tissue cryopreserved for more than 10 years

Helicobacter

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-168

  Seo, Ji Hyun ^a   Youn, Hee Shang ^a   Goo, Min Ji ^a   Jun, Jin Su ^a   Lim, Jae Young ^a   Park, Chan Hoo ^a   Woo, Hyang Ok ^a   Ko, Gyung Hyuck ^a   Baik, Seung Chul ^a   Lee, Woo Kon ^a   Cho, Myung Je ^a   Rhee, Kwang Ho ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; LIQUID NITROGEN;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDOSCOPY; FROZEN SECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA; STORAGE TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; PYLORIC ANTRUM;

EID: 84875075031     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: 15235378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hel.12015     Document Type: Letter

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