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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, May 2000, p. 463-467, Vol. 7, No. 3
Laboratoire de Bactériologie,
Faculté de Médecine de Brest-Université de Bretagne
occidentale,1 and Service de
Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, CHU La Cavale
Blanche,3 29200 Brest, and Laboratoire
de Microbiologie A, CHU La Milétrie et Faculté de
Médecine et de Pharmacie, 86000 Poitiers,2
France
Received 12 May 1999/Returned for modification 27 July
1999/Accepted 22 February 2000
The aim of this study was to search for a specific antibody pattern
in sera from patients suffering from Helicobacter
pylori-related gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC). The serological
response of 22 patients suffering from GAC, 31 patients with
gastroduodenal ulcer, and 39 asymptomatic subjects was analyzed using
immunoblotting performed with three H. pylori strains:
strain ATCC 43579; strain B110, isolated from a patient with ulcers;
and strain B225, isolated from a patient with GAC. In addition, the
latex agglutination test Pyloriset Dry was used to analyze ambiguous
sera. H. pylori seropositivity was 75% in the GAC group,
61.3% in the ulcer group, and 56.4% in the asymptomatic group.
Anti-CagA antibodies were found more often in the GAC group (48.8%)
and in the ulcer group (47.3%) than in the asymptomatic group
(21.2%). These percentages depended on the strain used as an antigen:
in the GAC group, the anti-CagA frequencies were 93.3, 40, and 13.3%
with strains B225, B110, and ATCC 43579, respectively. Thus the
presence of anti-CagA antibodies was increased in patients suffering
from H. pylori-related GAC, in particular when the CagA
antigen was from a GAC strain. These data suggest the existence of a
CagA protein specifically expressed by H. pylori strains
isolated from GAC patients.
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Antibody Response of Patients with
Helicobacter pylori-Related Gastric Adenocarcinoma:
Significance of Anti-CagA Antibodies
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Microbiologie A, CHU La Milétrie, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France.
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