Blaser MJ: Ecology of Helicobacter pylori in the human stomach. J Clin Invest. 1997, 100: 759-762. 10.1172/JCI119588.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Cover TL, Blaser MJ: Helicobacter pylori factors associated with disease. Gastroenterology. 1999, 117: 257-261. 10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70575-5.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Parsonnet J, Friedman GDS, Vandersteen DP, Chang Y, Vogelman JH, Orentreich N, Sibley RK: Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of gastric carcinoma. N Engl J Med. 1991, 325: 1127-1131.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Abid S, Hussain T, Rabbani F, Ahmed A: Seroprevalence and risk factors for H. pylori. A Population Based Study. Helicobacter. 2003, 8: A6-
Google Scholar
Nizami SQ, Bhutta ZA, Weaver L, Preston T: Helicobacter pylori colonization in infants in a peri-urban community in Karachi, Pakistan. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2005, 4: 191-194.
Article
Google Scholar
Go MF, Graham DY: How does H. pylori cause duodenal ulcer disease: The bug, the host or both?. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1994, 9: S8-12. 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1994.tb01294.x.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Malaty HM, Engstrand L, Pedersen NL, Graham DY: Helicobacter pylori infection: genetic and environmental influences. A study of twins. Ann Intern Med. 1994, 120: 982-986.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Censini S, Lange C, Xiang Z, Crabtree JE, Ghiara P, Borodovsky M, Crabtree JE, Ghiara P, Borodovsky M, Rappuoli R, Covacci A: cag A- pathogenecity island of H. pylori encodes type I- specific and disease-associated virulence factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1996, 93: 14648-14653. 10.1073/pnas.93.25.14648.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Atherton JC, Cao P, Peek RM, Tummuru MKR, Blaser MJ: Mosaicism in vacuolating cytotoxin alleles of H. pylori: association of specific vacA types with cytotoxin production and peptic ulceration. J Biol Chem. 1995, 270: 17771-17777. 10.1074/jbc.270.30.17771.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Cover TL, Donley CP, Blaser MJ: Characterization of human serological response to proteins in H. pylori broth culture supernatants with vacuolizing cytotoxin activity. Infect Immun. 1990, 58: 603-610.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Weel JF, Hulst van der RW, Y Gerrits, Tytgat GN, Ende van der A, Dankert J: Inter relationship between cytotoxin- associated gene A, vacuolating cytotoxin and Helicobacter pylori-related diseases. J Infect Dis. 1996, 173: 1171-1175.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tee W, Lambert JR, Dwyer B: Cytotoxin production by H. pylori from patients with upper gastrointestinal tract disease. J Clin Microbiol. 1995, 33: 1203-1205.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
van Doorn LJ, Figueiredo C, Sanna R, Pena S, Midolo P, Ng EK, Atherton JC, Blaser MJ, Quint WG: Expanding allelic diversity of Helicobacter pylori vacA. J Clin Microbiol. 1998, 36: 2597-25603.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Rhead JL, Letley DP, Mohammadi M, Hussein N, Mohagheghi MA, Eshagh Hosseini M, Atherton JC: A new Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin determinant, the intermediate region, is associated with gastric cancer. Gastroenterology. 2007, 133: 926-936. 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.06.056.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Drossman DA: Rome III: The new criteria. Chinese J of Digest Dis. 2006, 7: 181-185. 10.1111/j.1443-9573.2006.00265.x.
Article
Google Scholar
Morio O, Rioux-Leclercq N, Pagenault M, Corbinais S, Ramee MP, Gosselin M, Bretagne JF: Prospective evaluation of a new rapid urease test (Pronto Dry) for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection. Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2004, 28 ((6-7 Pt1)): 6-7.
Google Scholar
Price AB: The Sydney System: histological division. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1991, 6: 209-222. 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1991.tb01468.x.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Van Zwet AA, Thijs C, Kooistra-Smid , Schirm J, Snijder JAM: Sensitivity of culture compared with that of polymerase chain reaction for detection of Helicobacter pylori from antral biopsy samples. J Clin Microbiol. 1993, 31: 1918-1920.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Covacci A, Rappuoli R: PCR amplification of gene sequences from Helicobacter pylori strains. Helicobacter pylori: Techniques for clinical diagnosis and basic research. 1996, Philadelphia; W. B. Saunders, 94-109.
Google Scholar
Occhialini A, Marais A, Urdaci M, Sierra R, Muñoz N, Covacci A, Mégraud F: Composition and gene expression of the cag pathogenicity island in H. pylori strains isolated from gastric carcinoma and gastritis patients in Costa Rica. Infect Immun. 2001, 69: 1902-1908. 10.1128/IAI.69.3.1902-1908.2001.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Mumtaz K, Abid S, Yakoob J, Abbas Z, Hamid S, Islam M, Shah HA, Jafri W: An office-based serological test for detection of current Helicobacter pylori infection: is it useful?. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006, 18: 85-88. 10.1097/00042737-200601000-00015.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ahmad T, Sohail K, Rizwan M, Mukhtar M, Bilal R, Khanum A: Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity-associated cagA and vacA genotypes among Pakistani dyspeptic patients. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2009, 55: 34-38. 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00492.x.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hussein NR, Mohammadi M, Talebkhan Y, Doraghi M, Letley DP, Muhammad MK, Argent RH, Atherton JC: Differences in virulence markers between Helicobacter pylori strains from Iraq and those from Iran: potential importance of regional differences in H. pylori-associated disease. J Clin Microbiol. 2008, 46: 1774-1779. 10.1128/JCM.01737-07.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Mukhopadhyay AK, Kersulyte D, Jeong JY, Datta S, Ito Y, Chowdhury A, Chowdhury S, Santra A, Bhattacharya SK, Azuma T, Nair GB, Berg DE: Distinctiveness of genotypes of Helicobacter pylori in Calcutta, India. J Bacteriol. 2000, 182: 3219-3227. 10.1128/JB.182.11.3219-3227.2000.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Rahman M, Mukhopadhyay AK, Nahar S, Datta S, Ahmad MM, Sarker S, Masud IM, Engstrand L, Albert MJ, Nair GB, Berg DE: DNA-level characterization of Helicobacter pylori strains from patients with overt disease and with benign infections in Bangladesh. J Clin Microbiol. 2003, 41: 2008-2014. 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2008-2014.2003.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Basso D, Zambon CF, Letley DP, Stranges A, Marchet A, Rhead JL, Schiavon S, Guariso G, Ceroti M, Nitti D, Rugge M, Plebani M, Atherton JC: Clinical relevance of Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA gene polymorphisms. Gastroenterology. 2008, 135: 91-99. 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.03.041.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar