Clonality Analysis of Helicobacter pylori in Patients Isolated from Several Biopsy Specimens and Gastric Juice in a Japanese Urban Population by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Fingerprinting

Table 1

Characteristics of patients from whom plural isolates, which were thought to be originated from the same clone, were obtained from different specimens.

Isolates derived from	Number of patients	Patients (gender, years of age, and disease)*
Antrum and corpus	7	F 14, CG (a); F 44, CG (b); F 46, CG (c); F 46, CG (d); M 11 CG (e); M 12, CG (f); M 13, CG (g)
Gastric juice and mucosa	10	F 11, CG (h); F 18, CG (i); F 38, CG (j); F 39, CG (k); F 42, GU (l); F 44, CG (m); F 47, GU (n); F 54, CG (o); M 8Y, DU (p); M 14, DU (q)
Antrum, corpus, and gastric juice	1	F 34, GU (r)
Corpus and duodenum	1	M 48, CG (s)
Antrum, corpus, and duodenum	1	M 28, DU (t)

∗M: male, F: female, CG: chronic gastritis, GU: gastric ulcer, and DU: duodenal ulcer.
( ): RAPD fingerprinting patterns of these patients that are shown in Figure 1.