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Detection of Helicobacter pylori infection by saliva IgG testing.

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1996

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Carlo A Fallone, M Elizov, P G Cleland, John A. Thompson, Gary Wild, John Lough, Juliana Barbosa de Faria, Alan Barkun
PubMed

Abstract

The salivary IgG results correlated significantly with the serum IgG titers but exhibited only modest test performance, compared with the results of gastric histology. This salivary test may be most useful in certain patient subpopulations or in specific clinical contexts.