Table 4

Relation between presence or absence of peptic ulcer disease, cagA and vacA genotypes in pretreatment biopsy specimens, and efficacy of one to two days of intensified quadruple eradication treatment

Clinical status No of cases Successful eradication cagA status Successful eradication vacA status Successful eradication
Peptic ulcer disease5479.6% (43/54)pos: 3987.2% (34/39)s1: 3986.1% (34/39)
s2: 0
neg: 1560% (9/15)s1: 944.4% (4/9)
s2: 683.3% (5/6)
Non-ulcer dyspepsia4355.8% (24/43)pos: 2070% (14/20)s1: 2070% (14/20)
s2: 0
neg: 2343.5% (10/23)s1: 757.1% (4/7)
s2: 1637.5% (6/16)
  • Patients with multiple genotypes (n=12), incomplete follow up (n=6), and non-matching pretreatment and post-treatment genotypes (n=6) were excluded from this table.