Absence of mucosa-associated colonic Helicobacters in an Australian urban population.
Application of nested PCR for Helicobacter species to 416 samples obtained at colonoscopy from 15 patients with Crohn's disease, 12 with ulcerative colitis, and 43 controls revealed H. pylori DNA in only 6 individuals with no disease association. No other Helicobacter species were detected in ileal or colonic samples.
Grehan
Martin
M
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. m.grehan@student.unsw.edu.au
Danon
Stephen
S
Lee
Adrian
A
Daskalopoulos
George
G
Mitchell
Hazel
H
D001315:Australia; D001706:Biopsy; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017931:DNA Primers; D016998:Helicobacter / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014505:Urban Population
D017931:DNA Primers