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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2015, Article ID 658106, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/658106
Research Article

24-Hour Measurement of Gastric pH in Rural South Africa

Alastair M. Sammon, Eugene J. Ndebia, Ekambaram Umapathy, and Jehu E. Iputo

Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Walter Sisulu University, Private Bag X1, Mthatha, Eastern Cape 5100, South Africa

Received 14 August 2014; Revised 20 February 2015; Accepted 28 February 2015

Academic Editor: Stephen O’Keefe

Copyright © 2015 Alastair M. Sammon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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