Review Article
Diagnostic Methods of Helicobacter pylori Infection for Epidemiological Studies: Critical Importance of Indirect Test Validation
Table 2
Positivity of biopsy specimens by histology confirmed with IHC.
| | Country [ref.] | | Both antrum and corpus-positive (%) | Antrum-positive (%) | Corpus-positive (%) | One positive of the two (%) |
| | Dominican Republic [13] | 158 | 82 (51.9%) | 84 (53.2%) | 87 (43.0%) | 89 (56.3%) | | Bhutan [14] | 372 | 194 (52.2%) | 206 (55.4%) | 216 (56.5%) | 229 (61.6%) | | Myanmar [15] | 252 | 72 (28.6%) | 76 (30.2%) | 86 (34.1%) | 90 (35.7%) | | Indonesia [16] | 78 | 4 (5.1%) | 4 (5.1%) | 4 (5.1%) | 6 (7.7%) |
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