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Microbiological tests

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Isolation by culture, simple microscopy and the biopsy urease tests are detection methods for Helicobacter pylori that have been refined over the past few years and are in common use, whereas the newer, molecular methods are research tools that may be widely adopted in the near future to aid diagnosis. The culture of H. pylori is often referred to as the ‘gold standard’ of methods for the detection of this microorganism because it is specific. However, the sensitivities of the methods used for the culture of gastric antral biopsies are, although greater than 95%, only equal to direct microscopic examination by histopathologists. For most bacterial infections culture is more sensitive than microscopy1.

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  1. Department of Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK

    T.C. Northfield (Professor of Gastroenterology), M. Mendall (Lecturer in Gastroenterology) & P. M. Goggin (Research Fellow) (Professor of Gastroenterology),  (Lecturer in Gastroenterology) &  (Research Fellow)

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Tompkins, D. (1993). Microbiological tests. In: Northfield, T., Mendall, M., Goggin, P.M. (eds) Helicobacter pylori Infection. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2216-0_12

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