Research Article
Evidence of Helicobacter spp. in Saliva and Gastric Mucosa of Domestic Dogs in the Central Region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Table 2
Findings of histologic gastric lesion on dogs colonised and noncolonised with Helicobacter in the stomach (mean of scores in both gastric zones).
| | Histologic gastric lesion [25] | Total (n = 35) | Colonised (n = 32) | Noncolonised (n = 3) |
| | Mild gastritis | 21 | 20 | 1 | | Moderate gastritis | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Fibrosis and mucosal atrophy | 3 | 2 | 1 | | Lymphocytic-plasmacytic infiltrate | 18 | 17 | 1 | | Neutrophilic infiltrate | 9 | 8 | 1 | | Eosinophilic infiltrate | 9 | 8 | 1 | | Gastric lymphofollicular hyperplasia | 3 | 3 | 0 | | Intraepithelial lymphocytes | 4 | 4 | 0 |
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