A multicenter prospective study on the diagnostic performance of a new liquid rapid urease test for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection

Abstract Background Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) causes a diversity of gastric diseases. Rapid urease tests (RUT) are well established for the point-of-care, invasive diagnosis of H. pylori infection. The study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a new liquid RUT, the preOx-HUT, withi...

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Main Authors: Werner Dolak, Ceren Bilgilier, Alexander Stadlmann, Judith Leiner, Andreas Püspök, Wolfgang Plieschnegger, Franz Siebert, Friedrich Wewalka, Rainer Schöfl, Ursula Huber-Schönauer, Christian Datz, Susanne Biowski-Frotz, Christoph Högenauer, Christiane Schrutka-Kölbl, Athanasios Makristathis, Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele, Christoph Steininger, for the Austrian Helicobacter Pylori Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Gut Pathogens
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13099-017-0226-5