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Helicobacter pylori in bottled mineral water: genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, March 2016
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Title
Helicobacter pylori in bottled mineral water: genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties
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BMC Microbiology, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12866-016-0647-1
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Reza Ranjbar, Faham Khamesipour, Nematollah Jonaidi-Jafari, Ebrahim Rahimi

Abstract

Up to now, fecal-oral and oral-oral are the most commonly known routes for transmission of H. pylori, therefore, contaminated water can play an important role in transmission of H. pylori to humans. Genotyping using virulence markers of H. pylori is one of the best approaches to study the correlations between H. pylori isolates from different samples. The present research was carried out to study the vacA, cagA, cagE, oipA, iceA and babA2 genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties of H. pylori isolated from the bottled mineral water samples of Iran. Of 450 samples studied, 8 samples (1.77 %) were contaminated with H. pylori. Brand C of bottled mineral water had the highest prevalence of H. pylori (3.63 %). The bottled mineral water samples of July month had the highest levels of H. pylori-contamination (50 %). H. pylori strains had the highest levels of resistance against metronidazole (62.5 %), erythromycin (62.5 %), clarithromycin (62.5 %), amoxicillin (62.5 %) and trimethoprim (62.5 %). Totally, 12.5 % of strains were resistant to more than 6 antibiotics. VvacAs1a (100 %), vacAm1a (87.5 %), cagA (62.5 %), iceA1 (62.5 %), oipA (25 %), babA2 (25 %) and cagE (37.5 %) were the most commonly detected genotypes. M1as1a (62.5 %), m1as2 (37.5 %), m2s2 (37.5 %) and S1a/cagA+/IceA2/oipA-/babA2-/cagE- (50 %) were the most commonly detected combined genotypes. Contaminated bottled mineral water maybe the sources of virulent and resistant strains H. pylori. Careful monitoring of bottled mineral water production may reduce the risk of H. pylori transmission into the human population.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Thailand 1 1%
Unknown 89 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 12%
Student > Master 11 12%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 17 19%
Unknown 33 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 20%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 3%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 37 41%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2016.
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#2,935,828
of 22,856,968 outputs
Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#243
of 3,193 outputs
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#48,969
of 300,258 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#7
of 64 outputs
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