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Diagnostic accuracy of reused Pronto Drytest and CLOtest in the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection

Jamaludin S 1 , Mustaffa N 2 , Che Hamzah NA 3 , Syed Abdul Aziz SH 4 , Lee YY 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. syahidjamal@yahoo.com
  • 2 School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. mustaffa.nazri@gmail.com
  • 3 Pasir Gudang Specialist Hospital, Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia. aizalchehamzah@hotmail.com
  • 4 School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. shassan@usm.my
  • 5 School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. justnleeyy@gmail.com
BMC Gastroenterol, 2015;15:101.
PMID: 26264957 DOI: 10.1186/s12876-015-0332-0

Abstract

Unchanged substrate in a negative rapid urease test may be reused to detect Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). This could potentially reduce costs and wastage in low prevalence and resource-poor settings. We thus aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of reused Pronto Dry and CLOtest kits, comparing this to the use of new Pronto Dry test kits and histopathological evaluation of gastric mucosal biopsies.

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