Antimicrobial resistance of Helicobacter pylori strains to five antibiotics, including levofloxacin, in Northwestern Turkey
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Antimicrobial resistance of Helicobacter pylori strains to five antibiotics, including levofloxacin, in Northwestern Turkey.
INTRODUCTION Antibiotic resistance is the main factor that affects the efficacy of current therapeutic regimens against Helicobacter pylori. This study aimed to determine the rates of resistance to efficacy clarithromycin, amoxicillin, tetracycline, levofloxacin and metronidazole among H. pylori strains isolated from Turkish patients with dyspepsia. METHODS H. pylori was cultured from corpus ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0037-8682
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0027-2015