Evaluation of Helicobacter pylory colonization by serologic test (IgG) and dyspepsia in volunteers from the countryside of Monte Negro, in the Brazilian western Amazon region Avaliação da colonização por Helicobacter pylori através de teste sorológico (IgG) e de dispepsia em voluntários da população rural de Monte Negro (RO), região da Amazônia ocidental

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Rafael Bernardon Ribeiro, Herlon Saraiva Martins, Vera Aparecida dos Santos, Marcelo el Khouri, Leandro Savoy Duarte, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Quirino Cordeiro, Luiz Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2010
• Subjects: Seroprevalence; Helicobacter pylori; Dyspepsia; Western Amazon; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Monte Negro
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652010000400007; https://doaj.org/article/6b15f654829d4867befe0ac71929fb3d

The present study intended to analyze the seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori, IgG, and its relation to dyspepsia in a population from the western Amazon region. During the "Projeto Bandeira Científica", a University of São Paulo Medical School program, in Monte Negro's rural areas,...