Does the use of chopsticks for eating transmit Helicobacter pylori?

Lancet. 1997 Jul 5;350(9070):31. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66240-x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Blotting, Southern
  • China / ethnology
  • Cooking and Eating Utensils*
  • Culture
  • DNA, Bacterial / isolation & purification
  • Helicobacter Infections / microbiology
  • Helicobacter Infections / transmission*
  • Helicobacter pylori / genetics
  • Helicobacter pylori / isolation & purification*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Saliva / microbiology

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial