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Human milk vacuolating cytotoxin A immunoglobulin A antibodies modify Helicobacter pylori infection in Gambian children

Lookup NU author(s): Dr David Campbell, Dr Julian Thomas

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Abstract

We collected data, including the weights, urea breath test results, and presence of maternal milk cytotoxin-associated gene-specific and vacuolating cytotoxin A-specific immunoglobulin A monthly from 48 mothers and infants (to 44 weeks of age) in The Gambia. In all, 11 children (23%) had negative urea breath test results, and 37 (77%) had positive results. Weight loss associated with Helicobacter pylori colonization was restricted to children whose mothers did not produce anti-vacuolating cytotoxin A antibodies in their milk (P = .028, by t test). © 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.

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Author(s): Campbell DI, Bunn JEG, Weaver LT, Harding M, Coward WA, Thomas JE

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases

Year: 2006

Volume: 43

Issue: 8

Pages: 1040-1042

ISSN (print): 1058-4838

ISSN (electronic): 1537-6591

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/507524

DOI: 10.1086/507524

PubMed id: 16983617

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