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Helicobacter infection: Helicobacter pylori detection
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Helicobacter pylori in the test material is normally absent.
Helicobacter pylori lead the leading role in the etiology of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer.
Materials for the study are biopsy specimens of the gastric mucosa and feces. The diagnostic sensitivity of PCR for detecting Helicobacter pylori in biopsy specimens of the gastric mucosa is 88-95.4%, specificity is 100%; in coprofiltrates - 61.4-93.7% and 100%, respectively.