title: Study of transmission routes of Helicobacter pylori in relation to seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus.
abstract: The seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in a group of 1,043 healthy Japanese people was compared with that of hepatitis A virus (HAV), which was used as a marker of fecal-oral exposure. No statistically significant relationship was observed between seropositivity for HAV and that for H. pylori. Therefore, the fecal-oral spread of H. pylori is of limited relevance in Japan.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handa-cho, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furuta
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kamata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takashima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Futami
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hanai
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaneko
mesh_terms: D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006507:Hepatovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence