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SUBMITTER: Matsunari O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4773856 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160302
Both the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and the incidence of gastric cancer are high in Bhutan. The high incidence of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer suggest the phylogeographic origin of an infection with a more virulent strain of H. pylori. More than 90% of Bhutanese strains possessed the highly virulent East Asian-type CagA and all strains had the most virulent type of vacA (s1 type). More than half also had multiple repeats in East Asian-type CagA, which are rare in other ...[more]