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Identification of Helicobacter pylori and OtherHelicobacter Species by PCR, Hybridization, and Partial DNA Sequencing in Human Liver Samples from Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Hans-Olof Nilsson, Jalal Taneera, Maria Castedal, Elisabeth Glatz, Rolf Olsson, Torkel Wadström
Hans-Olof Nilsson
Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, and
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Jalal Taneera
Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, and
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Maria Castedal
Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, and
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Elisabeth Glatz
Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, and
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Rolf Olsson
Hepato-Gastroenterology Unit,Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sahlgrenska, Gothenburg, Sweden
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DOI: 10.1128/JCM.38.3.1072-1076.2000
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Helicobacter pylori was identified in human liver tissue by PCR, hybridization, and partial DNA sequencing. Liver biopsies were obtained from patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (n = 12), primary biliary cirrhosis (n = 12), and noncholestatic liver cirrhosis (n = 13) and (as controls) normal livers (n = 10). PCR analyses were carried out using primers for the Helicobacter genus, Helicobacter pylori(the gene encoding a species-specific 26-kDa protein and the 16S rRNA),Helicobacter bilis, Helicobacter pullorum, andHelicobacter hepaticus. Samples from patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis (11 and 9 samples, respectively) were positive by PCR with Helicobactergenus-specific primers. Of these 20 samples, 8 were positive with the 16S rRNA primer and 9 were positive with the 26-kDa protein primer ofH. pylori. These nine latter samples were also positive by Southern blot hybridization for the amplified 26-kDa fragment, and four of those were verified to be H. pylori by partial 16S rDNA sequencing. None of the samples reacted with primers for H. bilis, H. pullorum, or H. hepaticus. None of the normal livers had positive results in theHelicobacter genus PCR assay, and only one patient in the noncholestatic liver cirrhosis group, a young boy who at reexamination showed histological features suggesting primary sclerosing cholangitis, had a positive result in the same assay. Helicobacterpositivity was thus significantly more common in patients with cholestatic diseases (20 of 24) than in patients with noncholestatic diseases and normal controls (1 of 23) (P = <0.00001). Patients positive for Helicobacter genus had significantly higher values of alkaline phosphatases and prothrombin complex than Helicobacter-negative patients (P = 0.0001 and P = 0.0003, respectively). Among primary sclerosing cholangitis patients,Helicobacter genus PCR positivity was weakly associated with ulcerative colitis (P = 0.05). Significant differences related to blood group or HLA status were not found.

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Identification of Helicobacter pylori and OtherHelicobacter Species by PCR, Hybridization, and Partial DNA Sequencing in Human Liver Samples from Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Hans-Olof Nilsson, Jalal Taneera, Maria Castedal, Elisabeth Glatz, Rolf Olsson, Torkel Wadström
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Mar 2000, 38 (3) 1072-1076; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.38.3.1072-1076.2000

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Identification of Helicobacter pylori and OtherHelicobacter Species by PCR, Hybridization, and Partial DNA Sequencing in Human Liver Samples from Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Hans-Olof Nilsson, Jalal Taneera, Maria Castedal, Elisabeth Glatz, Rolf Olsson, Torkel Wadström
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Mar 2000, 38 (3) 1072-1076; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.38.3.1072-1076.2000
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KEYWORDS

Cholangitis, Sclerosing
DNA, Bacterial
Helicobacter
Helicobacter pylori
Liver
Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary

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