Prevalence and clinical relevance of Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA genes in Lebanese patients with gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

• Main Author: Aline E.Khayat,1 Assaad M. Soweid,2 Mireille M. Kattar,3 Ayman N. Tawil,3 Ihab I. El Hajj,2 Cecilio Azar,2 Benjamin D. Gold,4 and Ghassan M. Matar.1 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2007-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The prevalence and clinical relevance of H. pylori cagA and vacA virulence genes in the pathogenesis of disease phenotype was assessed by a novel approach for this organism consisting of determination and comparisons of H. pylori gene transcription levels directly in gastric biopsies acc...