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The prevalence of the duodenal ulcer promoting gene (dupA) in Helicobacter pylori isolates varies by ethnic group and is not universally associated with disease development: a case-control study

BACKGROUND: The putative H. pylori pathogenicity-associated factor dupA has been associated with IL-8 induction in vitro, and duodenal ulcer (DU) and gastric cancer (GC) development in certain populations, but this association is inconsistent between studies. We aimed to investigate dupA prevalence...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Heather-Marie A, Andres, Sönke, Kaakoush, Nadeem O, Engstrand, Lars, Eriksson, Lena, Goh, Khean-Lee, Fock, Kwong Ming, Hilmi, Ida, Dhamodaran, Subbiah, Forman, David, Mitchell, Hazel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19338650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-1-5