Background and Aim: The current diagnostic methods for detecting Helicobacter pylori infection include rapid urease test (RUT), urea breath test (UBT), histology, culture, and serum antibody detection ...

Diagnosis of H. pylori infection can be clinical or based on noninvasive or invasive testing. In 2007, the American College of Gastroenterology published guidelines for H. pylori testing 15 (Table 2).

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Urea is a small molecule formed as proteins ...

*Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University Kihoku Hospital and † Second Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan Distribution of delta-pH values ...