Occurrence of Helicobacter pylori and Epstein-Barr virus infection in endoscopic and gastric cancer patients from Northern Brazil

Carolina Rosal Teixeira de Souza,Kátia Soares de Oliveira,Jefferson José Sodré Ferraz,Mariana Ferreira Leal,Danielle Queiroz Calcagno,Aline Damasceno Seabra,André Salim Khayat,Raquel Carvalho Montenegro,Ana Paula Negreiros Nunes Alves,Paulo Pimentel Assumpção,Marília de Arruda Cardoso Smith,Rommel Rodríguez Burbano

Occurrence of Helicobacter pylori and Epstein-Barr virus infection in endoscopic and gastric cancer patients from Northern Brazil

2014

Carolina Rosal Teixeira de Souza
Kátia Soares de Oliveira
Jefferson José Sodré Ferraz
Mariana Ferreira Leal
Danielle Queiroz Calcagno
Aline Damasceno Seabra
André Salim Khayat
Raquel Carvalho Montenegro
Ana Paula Negreiros Nunes Alves
Paulo Pimentel Assumpção
Marília de Arruda Cardoso Smith
Rommel Rodríguez Burbano

Background Helicobacter pylori (HP) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) have been associated with cancer development. We evaluated the prevalence of HP, HP CagA+ and EBV infection in gastric cancer (GC) samples from adults and in gastric tissues from patients who underwent upper endoscopy (UE).

Keywords:

Virus
Epstein–Barr virus infection
CagA
Stomach
Cancer
Gastroenterology
Epstein–Barr virus
Helicobacter pylori
Medicine
Gastritis
Internal medicine
Hepatology

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