Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection among 4742 randomly selected subjects from Northern Ireland
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Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection among 4742 randomly selected subjects from Northern Ireland.
BACKGROUND Despite the widespread prevalence and serious clinical sequelae of infection with Helicobacter pylori, there have been few large population-based studies, using randomly selected subjects, examining the epidemiology of this infection. AIM To examine the distribution and determinants of H. pylori infection in a developed country. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Overall 4742 subjects, aged 12...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.4.880