conclusions: prevalence of h. pylori infection in our patients was similar to that of developing countries. severity of gastritis is correlated with the extent of h. pylori infection. moreover, the antibiotic resistance rate observed in this study signifies the ever-growing importance of further antibiotic sensitivity studies to help with proper treatment regimens against h. pylori. results: ov...

conclusions findings from this study showed a lower prevalence of h. pylori infection than other studies and its prevalence increased with age. there was no association between sex and infection. the most common endoscopic abnormality in h. pylori-positive patients was ulcerative lesion. results from the 548 included patients (238 males and 310 females), h. pylori was detected in 170 (31.2%). t...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is one of the most common chronic infections in patients with gastrointestinal disorders. recent reports suggested that h. pylori might have high prevalence among patients with diabetes. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the prevalence of h. pylori infection in diabetes mellitus and to study the relationship between histological findings and h. ...

the aims of this study were to detect helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) by culture, polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and histopathological methods, to determine the prevalence of active h. pylori infection in elazig province, east of turkey and to evaluate the relationship between h. pylori infection and sex. antrum and corpus samples of 184 turkish patients (85 male and 99 female, age range 17 to...

Foods with animal origins play a substantial role in the transmission of Helicobacter pylori. The present investigation was carried out to study the vacA and cagA genotypes status of H. pylori isolated from various types of meat samples. Two hundred and twenty meat samples were collected and cultured. H. pylori-positive strains were analyzed for the ...

Background: Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is the most prevalent human infection in half of the world population. Few studies investigated the reasons of infection to H pylori in societies. The current study was designed i to examine the relationship of food insecurity and quality of life with H pylori infection. Methods: In this case- control study, 200 candidates were selected among the peopl...

background: helicobacter pylori infection is one of the most common chronic bacterial infections. there is challenge on the real rate of prevalence of h. pylori in diabetic patients. this study was done to assess the prevalence of h. pylori infection in children suffering from type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. methods: in this case-control study, 80 diabetic patients (as the target gr...

background: infection with helicobacter pylori might be related to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric adenocarcinoma. given the high prevalence of helicobacter infection in our region, this study was designed to determine the age trend of helicobacter pylori contamination in golestan province in 2008. materials andmethods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 1028 ...

foods with animal origins play a substantial role in the transmission of helicobacter pylori. the present investigation was carried out to study the vaca and caga genotypes status of h. pylori isolated from various types of meat samples. two hundred and twenty meat samples were collected and cultured. h. pylori-positive strains were analyzed for the presence of vaca and caga genotypes. eleven o...

We read the paper written by Razeghinejad et al. (1), who conducted a study on anti- Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) IgG antibody levels in an Iranian glaucoma cohort, with considerable interest and based on our original concept (2-5). The authors concluded that a relation between H. pylori infection and primary open-angle glaucoma is not supported by their results, because the aqueous anti- H....