Agreement rate of rapid urease test, conventional PCR, and scorpion real-time PCR in detecting Helicobacter pylori from tonsillar samples of patients with chronic tonsillitis

Agreement rate of rapid urease test, conventional PCR, and scorpion real-time PCR in detecting Helicobacter pylori from tonsillar samples of patients with chronic tonsillitis

Background: Helicobacter pylori is capable of inducing systemic inflammatory reactions through immunological processes. There are several methods to identify the presence of H. pylori in clinical samples including rapid urease test (RUT), conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the Scorpio...

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Main Authors: Reza Najafipour, Taghi Naserpour Farivar, Ali Akbar Pahlevan, Pouran Johari, Farshid Safdarian, Mina Asefzadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Degree of agreement
H. pylori
PCR
Tonsillitis
Online Access:http://www.jgid.org/article.asp?issn=0974-777X;year=2012;volume=4;issue=2;spage=106;epage=109;aulast=Najafipour

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