background: helicobacter pylori infection is the most common gastrointestinal bacterial disease worldwide. although using culture is considered as the golden standard method for diagnosis of h. pylori infection, urea breath test is a notable alternative method because it is an easy, quick, and non-invasive approach. the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of h. pylori infection in ...

objective: childhood infectious diseases are one of the most known environmental pathogenic causes of childhood asthma. the high prevalence of both helicobacter pylori infection and asthma in our country prompted us to assess anyprobable as- sociation between them in childhood. methods: this cross-sectional study recruited 196 children aged 6 to 12 years old comprising 98 asthmatic (case group)...

objective: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is the most common pathogenic bacteria in the stomach. the aim of the current study was to explore the effect of oral garlic administration on bacterial urease activity inside the stomach and its contribution to the treatment of h. pylori infection.   materials and methods: in this clinical trial, 15 patients were studied quantitatively with urease bre...

ba ckground: there have been a number of reports indicating that garlic can inhibit helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) in vitro ; however, there is few clinical trials evaluating its effect in human infection. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of garlic consumption on urea breath test (ubt) results in patients with h. pylori infection. m ethods: we performed a randomized case-contro...

background: to estimate the prevalence of small intestine bacterial overgrowth (sibo) among patients with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) versus healthy subjects with the use of a glucose breath test (gbt) in our geographical area. materials and methods: this study included a total of 80 consecutive patients; 40 with ibs based on rome iii criteria and 40 healthy controls with similar age and sex...

back ground and amis: among the patients who go to physicians, especially to gastroentero logists, a great number consists of the onse suffering upper gi diseases, particularly peptic ulcer disease (pud) which,â  in addition to creating much pain and lowering the quality of life causes a great morbidity and â mortality. so it seems necessary to be cured.â according to the lastâ  researchesâ  th...

helicobacter pylori infection is one of the most common human infections which have been associated with many upper gasterointestinal complications. different treatment regimens for helicobacter pylori eradication have been used. one of these regimes is the quadruple therapy regimen which metronidazole is one of the medications. in recent years several reports on h. pylori resistance to this an...