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Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric carcinoma

F Mégraud1, E Bessède1, C Varon1

  • 1INSERM U853, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection : the Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
|June 19, 2015
PubMed

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CagA oncoproteinVacA cytotoxincancer stem cellscarcinogenesisepithelial–mesenchymal transitionprevention

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