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SUBMITTER: Feliciano O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4402555 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feliciano Onelkis O Gutierrez Oderay O Valdés Lidunka L Fragoso Trini T Calderin Ana Maria AM Valdes Antonio Eduardo AE Llanes Rafael R
BioMed research international 20150406
Virulence factors of Helicobacter pylori can predict the development of different gastroduodenal diseases. There are scarce reports in Cuba about H. pylori isolates genotyping. The aim of the present investigation was to identify allelic variation of the virulence genes vacA, cagA, and iceA in sixty-eight patients diagnosed as H. pylori positive by culture. In seven out of 68 patients, strains from both gastric regions were obtained and considered independent. DNA was extracted from all the H. p ...[more]