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ArticleToxins2016

Helicobacter pylori vacA Genotypes in Chronic Gastritis and Gastric Carcinoma Patients from Macau, China.

Ines Pinto-Ribeiro, Rui M Ferreira, Sellma Batalha, Thazin Hlaing, Sio In Wong, Fatima Carneiro, Ceu Figueiredo

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Article in Toxins, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Biomolecules · 2026
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  3. Correlation analysis of gastric mucosal lesions withAnnals of translational medicine · 2022
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  4. Evaluation of Anti-Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  5. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021
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  6. Review
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  8. Analysis ofGastroenterology research · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ines Pinto-Ribeiroi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal. iribeiro@ipatimup.pt.
Rui M Ferreirai3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal. ruif@ipatimup.pt.
Sellma BatalhaCentro Hospitalar Conde São Januário, Macau, China. batalhacosi1210@yahoo.co.uk.
Thazin HlaingCentro Hospitalar Conde São Januário, Macau, China. thazin@macau.ctm.net.
Sio In WongCentro Hospitalar Conde São Januário, Macau, China. siwong2004@ssm.gov.mo.
Fatima Carneiroi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal. fcarneiro@ipatimup.pt.
Ceu Figueiredoi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal. cfigueiredo@ipatimup.pt.
Universidade do Porto · PTHospital Conde S. Januário · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori is the major triggering factor for gastric carcinoma, but only a small proportion of infected patients develop this disease. Differences in virulence observed among H. pylori strains, namely in the vacuolating cytotoxin vacA gene, may contribute to this discrepancy. Infection with vacA s1, i1 and m1 strains increases the risk for progression of gastric premalignant lesions and for gastric carcinoma. However, in East Asian countries most of the H. pylori strains are vacA s1, regardless of the patients' clinical status, and the significance of the vacA i1 and m1 genotypes for gastric carcinoma in this geographic area remains to be fully elucidated. The aim of the present study was to investigate this relationship in 290 patients from Macau, China. Using very sensitive and accurate genotyping methods, we detected infection with vacA i1 and with vacA m1 strains in, respectively, 85.2% and 52.6% of the patients that were infected with single genotypes. The prevalence of cagA-positive strains was 87.5%. No significant associations were observed between vacA genotypes or cagA and gastric carcinoma. It is worth noting that 37.5% of the infected patients had coexistence of H. pylori strains with different vacA genotypes. Additional studies directed to other H. pylori virulence factors should be performed to identify high risk patients in East Asia.

Indexed as

AgedBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsChinaChronic DiseaseDNA, BacterialFemaleGastritisGenes, BacterialGenotypeHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHumansMaleMiddle AgedStomach NeoplasmsBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsDNA, BacterialVacA protein, Helicobacter pyloriChinagastric carcinomagenotypingHelicobacter pylorivacA gene

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PMID27164143
PMCPMC4885057
OpenAlexW2346899278

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