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. 1993 Oct;31(10):2802-4.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.31.10.2802-2804.1993.

Isolation of Helicobacter pylori from saliva

D A Ferguson Jr  1 , C Li, N R Patel, W R Mayberry, D S Chi, E Thomas
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Isolation of Helicobacter pylori from saliva

D A Ferguson Jr et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1993 Oct.

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori was grown in low numbers from the saliva of one of nine patients who were positive for gastric H. pylori. The saliva-derived isolate from this patient was identical to the antral biopsy-derived isolate from the same patient and differed from isolates cultured from the antral biopsies of all other patients by soluble-protein electrophoresis, restriction endonuclease DNA analysis, and Southern blot hybridization. This is the first observation, to our knowledge, of the recovery of viable H. pylori from saliva.

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