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SUBMITTER: Jang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2815640 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jang Sungil S Jones Kathleen R KR Olsen Cara H CH Joo Young Min YM Yoo Yun-Jung YJ Chung In-Sik IS Cha Jeong-Heon JH Merrell D Scott DS
Journal of clinical microbiology 20091202 2
Gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric cancer are a few of the diverse disease manifestations that have been shown to be associated with infection by Helicobacter pylori. Why some individuals develop more severe forms of disease remains largely unknown. In this study, 225 South Korean strains were genotyped for vacA and then analyzed to determine if particular genotypes varied across disease state, sex, or cagA allele. Of these strains, 206 strains carried an s1/i1/m1 allele, 11 strains ca ...[more]