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SUBMITTER: Fontenete S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410960 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fontenete Sílvia S Leite Marina M Guimarães Nuno N Madureira Pedro P Ferreira Rui Manuel RM Figueiredo Céu C Wengel Jesper J Azevedo Nuno Filipe NF
PloS one 20150427 4
In recent years, there have been several attempts to improve the diagnosis of infection caused by Helicobacter pylori. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a commonly used technique to detect H. pylori infection but it requires biopsies from the stomach. Thus, the development of an in vivo FISH-based method (FIVH) that directly detects and allows the visualization of the bacterium within the human body would significantly reduce the time of analysis, allowing the diagnosis to be performe ...[more]