Helicobacter pylori
"Helicobacter pylori Infection and Blood Groups."
Published in Blood Weekly, March 4th, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Gastroenterology, "Objectives: Bacterial attachment is a prerequisite for colonization of the gastric epithelial surface. Recently, it was demonstrated that the receptor for Helicobacter pylori is the blood group antigen Lewis b, which is exposed only in blood group O. We prospectively examined the prevalence of blood groups in H. pylori-positive and -negative patients. To avoid a genetic bias, we compared blood group prevalence of our patients with the general population of Israel. Methods: In the 187 consecutive patients we studied, in addition to regular upper endoscopy,...
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