INCIDENCE OF HELICOBACTER-PYLORI-ASSOCIATED GASTRITIS IN THE URBAN-POPULATION FROM INDIA

Authors
SATOSKAR A VORA IM
Citation
A. Satoskar et Im. Vora, INCIDENCE OF HELICOBACTER-PYLORI-ASSOCIATED GASTRITIS IN THE URBAN-POPULATION FROM INDIA, Tropical and geographical medicine, 46(3), 1994, pp. 167-168
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
46
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
167 - 168
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1994)46:3<167:IOHGIT>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Endoscopic gastric biopsies from 109 patients showing chronic active g astritis on histology were analysed to detect Helicobacter pylori by G imenez technique, Incidence of H. pylori positivity was found to be 50 .4%. The organisms were detected mainly above the epithelial surface a nd in the crypts. All the patients were residents from Bombay or its s uburbs.