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Infection and Immunity, July 2006, p. 4064-4074, Vol. 74, No. 7
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00123-06
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Identification of Markers for Helicobacter pylori Strains Isolated from Children with Peptic Ulcer Disease by Suppressive Subtractive Hybridization

Unidade Helicobacter/Campylobacter, Centro de Bacteriologia, Instituto Nacional Saúde Dr Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal,¹ INSERM ERI 10 Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France²

Received 24 January 2006/ Returned for modification 18 February 2006/ Accepted 1 April 2006

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) occurs after a long-term Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the disease can develop earlier, and rare cases have been observed in children, suggesting that these H. pylori strains may be more virulent. We used suppressive subtractive hybridization for comparative genomics between H. pylori strains isolated from a 5-year-old child with duodenal ulcer and from a sex- and age-matched child with gastritis only. The prevalence of the 30 tester-specific subtracted sequences was determined on a collection of H. pylori strains from children (15 ulcers and 30 gastritis) and from adults (46 ulcers and 44 gastritis). Two of these sequences, jhp0562 (80.0% versus 33.3%, P = 0.008) and jhp0870 (80.0% versus 36.7%, P = 0.015), were highly associated with PUD in children and a third sequence, jhp0828, was less associated (40.0% versus 10.0%, P = 0.048). Among adult strains, none of the 30 sequences was associated with PUD. However, both jhp0562 and jhp0870 were less prevalent in adenocarcinoma strains than in PUD strains from children and adults, the difference being statistically significant for jhp0870. In conclusion, two H. pylori genes were identified as being strongly associated with PUD in children, and their putative roles as an outer membrane protein for jhp0870 and in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis for jhp0562, suggest that they may be novel virulence factors of H. pylori.

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