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J Clin Microbiol
; 40(1): 259-61, 2002 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11773126
RESUMO
Of 96 Helicobacter pylori isolates from patients in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China, 5 had the A2143G 23S rRNA mutation as determined by primer-mismatch PCR and were resistant to clarithromycin by the E-test. The remaining isolates were primer-mismatch PCR negative and susceptible to clarithromycin. The conclusion is that the prevalence of clarithromycin-resistant H. pylori isolates among these Chinese patients is 5%.