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SUBMITTER: Akada J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4139317 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Akada Junko J Okuda Masumi M Hiramoto Narumi N Kitagawa Takao T Zhang Xiulian X Kamei Shuichi S Ito Akane A Nakamura Mikiko M Uchida Tomohisa T Hiwatani Tomoko T Fukuda Yoshihiro Y Nakazawa Teruko T Kuramitsu Yasuhiro Y Nakamura Kazuyuki K
PloS one 20140820 8
Serum antibodies against pathogenic bacteria play immunologically protective roles, and can be utilized as diagnostic markers of infection. This study focused on Japanese child serum antibodies against Helicobacter pylori, a chronically-infected gastric bacterium which causes gastric cancer in adults. Serological diagnosis for H. pylori infection is well established for adults, but it needs to be improved for children. Serum samples from 24 children, 22 H. pylori (Hp)-positive and 2 Hp-negative ...[more]