Helicobacter Pylori Variants with ABC-Type Tyrosine Phosphorylation Motif in Gastric Biopsies of Ghanaian Patients

Table 1

Sets of primers for H. pylori detection and characterization.

Target gene	Primer name	Primer sequence (5-3)	Tm (°C)	Expected product size (bp)
H. pylori 16S rRNA	F^a	TCCAACAACTAGCATCCATC	52.2	127
	R^a	AGGAATACTCATTGCGAAGG	52.2
Western type	WF	ATGATCTCGGCGGACGACCTTT	60.7	207, 285, 387, and 489
	WR	TGCGTGTGTGGCTGTTAGTAG	57.3
East Asia type	EF	GCATCAGCAGGTAAAGGAGTG	58.8	557

H. pylori 16S rRNA primers (this study): F^a: forward primer; R^a: reverse primer. Western type: WF: forward primer; WR: reverse primer. EF: East Asia type forward primer [20].