Study of transmission routes of Helicobacter pylori in relation to seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus

T Furuta; T Kamata; M Takashima; H Futami; H Arai; H Hanai; E Kaneko

doi:10.1128/jcm.35.7.1891-1893.1997

Study of transmission routes of Helicobacter pylori in relation to seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus

J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Jul;35(7):1891-3. doi: 10.1128/jcm.35.7.1891-1893.1997.

Authors

T Furuta¹, T Kamata, M Takashima, H Futami, H Arai, H Hanai, E Kaneko

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handa-cho, Japan.

Abstract

The seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in a group of 1,043 healthy Japanese people was compared with that of hepatitis A virus (HAV), which was used as a marker of fecal-oral exposure. No statistically significant relationship was observed between seropositivity for HAV and that for H. pylori. Therefore, the fecal-oral spread of H. pylori is of limited relevance in Japan.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Helicobacter Infections / complications
Helicobacter Infections / epidemiology
Helicobacter Infections / virology*
Helicobacter pylori / isolation & purification*
Hepatitis A / complications
Hepatitis A / epidemiology
Hepatitis A / microbiology*
Hepatovirus / isolation & purification*
Humans
Japan / epidemiology
Prevalence