Is There a Real Relationship between the Presence of Helicobacter pylori in Dental Plaque and Gastric Infection? A Genotyping and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Study on Patient Specimens with Dyspepsia in Southwest Iran

Table 2

The enzymatic RFLP patterns for vacA and cagA genes.

RFLP pattern	Gene		RFLP pattern	Gene
	vacA			cagA
	Dental n = 19(%)	Stomach n = 56(%)		Dental n = 12(%)	Stomach n = 35(%)
3 bands (74, 392, 704 bp)	9 (47.4)	36 (64.3)	1 band (%) (1320 bp)	3 (25)	10 (28.6)
4 bands (50, 180, 293, 710)	10 (52.6)	20 (35.7)	3 bands (%) (254, 384, 712 bp)	9 (75)	25 (71.4)
Total	19 (100)	56 (100)	Total	12 (100)	35 (100)