@article{baqir2016relationship,
  title = {Relationship between ABO Blood Groups and Helicobacter Pylori Infection among Patients with Dyspepsia},
  author = {Gaidaa Kadhum Baqir and Amin Al-Sulami and Saad Shaheen Hamadi},
  year = 2016,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JVM/2016/688370/},
  journal = {Journal of Virology and Microbiology},
  volume = 2016 (2016),
  pages = 9,
  doi = 10.5171/2016.688370,
  abstract = {The aim of this study was the detection of H. pylori infection in patients with various gastrointestinal symptoms as related to blood groups and Rhesus factor. A total of 200 patients, 110 males and 90 females, whose age ranged from 18-75 years were included in this study. Gastric biopsies were taken from all patients for detection of H.pylori by RUT, culture and PCR. Blood samples were tested for H.pylori antibodies by RDT, and subjected to ABO/Rhesus blood group antigen typing. Results showed that 66.5%, 69.5%, 71% and 67.5% of patients were positive for H.pylori infection by RUT, RDT, culture and PCR, respectively. According to gender, 84.5% males and 58.9% females were H. pylori positive. The frequencies of H.pylori infection among patients with gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and gastric cancer were 73.4%, 83.3%, 68.6%  and 50%, respectively; but the difference was not significant ( P>0.05). Patients of blood group O were more prone to H. pylori infection (88.9%) than  patients in other blood groups, and patients in the AB blood group were less  prone to H. pylori infection (35.3%) as compared with patients in other blood groups (P < 0.001). In this study H.pylori was found in 74.2% Rh+ and in 57.1% Rh- patients without statistical difference (P>0.05). The results of this study suggest that ABO blood groups influence positivity for H. pylori infection},
  keywords = {Helicobacter pylori, Blood groups, PCR.},
  note = Article ID: 688370
}