Research Article

Evaluation of the Pattern of EPIYA Motifs in the Helicobacter pylori cagA Gene of Patients with Gastritis and Gastric Adenocarcinoma from the Brazilian Amazon Region

Table 1

Distribution of Helicobacter pylori cagA EPIYA genotypes in patients with chronic gastritis and gastric carcinoma.

ā€‰EPIYA patternGastritis
(%)
Cancer
(%)

MonoinfectionEPIYA-AB4 (5.40)4 (5.26)
EPIYA-ABC42 (56.76)19 (25)
EPIYA-ABCC26 (35.14)25 (32.90)
EPIYA-ABCCC2 (2.70)28 (36.84)

Mixed infectionEPIYA-ABC/ABCC20 (76.92)33 (41.25)
EPIYA-ABC/ABCCCā€”2 (2.5)
EPIYA-ABCC/ABCCC2 (7.7)14 (17.5)
EPIYA-ABC/ABCC/ABCCC4 (15.38)31 (38.75)