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MICROBES AND INFECTION
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 428-434Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.12.012
Keywords
Helicobacter pylori; virulence factors; cytokines; gastroduodenal ulcer
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK054495-05, DK-54495, R01 DK054495] Funding Source: Medline
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Helicobacter pylori infection is highly prevalent in Chile (73%). Usually a minority of infected patients develops complications such as ulcers and gastric cancer that have been associated with the presence of virulence factors (cagA, vacA) and host T helper response (Th1/Th2). Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between strain virulence and host immune response, using a multiple regression approach for the development of a model based on data collected from H. pylori infected patients in Chile. We analyzed levels of selected cytokines determined by ELISA (interleukin (IL)-12, IL-10, interferon (IFN)-gamma and IL-4) and the presence of cagA and vacA alleles polymorphisms determined by PCR in antral biopsies of 41 patients referred to endoscopy. By multiple regression analysis we established a correlation between bacterial and host factors using clinical outcome (gastritis and duodenal ulcer) as dependent variables. The selected model was described by: clinical outcome = 0.867491 (cagA) + 0.0131847 (IL-12/IL-10) + 0.0103503 (IFN-gamma/IL-4) and it was able to explain over 90% of clinical outcomes observations (R-2=96.4). This model considers that clinical outcomes are better explained by the interaction of host immune factors and strain virulence as a complex and interdependent mechanism. (c) 2007 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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