Isolation of Helicobacter pylori from saliva.
Helicobacter pylori was grown in low numbers from the saliva of one of nine patients who were positive for gastric H. pylori. The saliva-derived isolate from this patient was identical to the antral biopsy-derived isolate from the same patient and differed from isolates cultured from the antral biopsies of all other patients by soluble-protein electrophoresis, restriction endonuclease DNA analysis, and Southern blot hybridization. This is the first observation, to our knowledge, of the recovery of viable H. pylori from saliva.
Ferguson
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Department of Microbiology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City.
Li
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Patel
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Mayberry
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Chi
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Thomas
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D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology*
D005227:Fatty Acids