High Prevalence of Clarithromycin Resistance and cagA, vacA, iceA2, and babA2 Genotypes of Helicobacter pylori in Brazilian Children

We isolated 45 Helicobacter pylori strains from 217 child patients. Resistance to clarithromycin, metronidazole, amoxicillin, and tetracycline was detected in 27%, 13%, 4%, and 0% of strains, respectively. The A2143G mutation was the most prevalent (67%) among clarithromycin-resistant strains. In ad...

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Main Authors: Garcia, Gabriella T., Aranda, Katia R. S., Gonçalves, Manoel E. P., Cardoso, Silvia R., Iriya, Kiyoshi, Silva, Neusa P., Scaletsky, Isabel C. A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020848/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20826649
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01034-10
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