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 3

Characteristics of patients from whom plural isolates were obtained from a biopsy specimen.

Patient	Age (year)	Gender	Disease	Number of isolates
				Antrum	Corpus
1	9	M	CG	3	3
2	55	M	CG	3	2
3	35	M	GU	3	3
4	43	M	GU	5	3
5	32	F	CG	5	3
6	49	F	CG	4	4
7	10	M	CG	4	4
8	35	F	CG	3	3

M: male, F: female, CG: chronic gastritis, and GU: gastric ulcer.