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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-5-12
pubmed:abstractText
Intrafamilial cases of infection with the same strain of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) have been reported but these clusters were too small to distinguish between person to person spread or coinfection from a common environmental source. To gain more information on the mode of transmission of H pylori, an epidemiological survey with bacterial strain differentiation by restriction endonuclease analysis of chromosomal DNA was carried out in an institution of 117 children with encephalopathy (aged 3.5 to 19 years). All children with antibodies against H pylori had gastroscopy to obtain gastric biopsy specimens. The prevalence of infection (confirmed histologically or microbiologically, or both) was 38% (45/117), and rose to 67% in one of the five sections of the institution. H pylori was isolated in 34/45 cases, and 22 different strains were found of which five strains were present in more than one child. Up to seven children were infected by the same strain, five of them were living in the same section. Analysis of the characteristics of infected children showed the predominant role of living conditions and the period of time cohabiting in this unexpectedly high prevalence of H pylori infection in children living in good sanitary conditions.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0017-5749
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
313-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
High prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in cohabiting children. Epidemiology of a cluster, with special emphasis on molecular typing.
pubmed:affiliation
Service de Bactériologie-A, Faculté de Médecine, Lille, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't