Table 4.

Patients with discordant H pylori vacA and babA2 genes from antrum and corpus biopsy specimens in the same stomach

Patient	Gene	Antrum	Corpus	Diagnosis	GCIR group
1	vacA	s2/m1	s1b/m1	AG	A (High GCIR)
2		s1b/m1	s2/m2	NAG	A
3		s1b/m1	s2/m2	AG	A
4		s1b/m1	s2/m2	AG + IM	A
5		s1b/m1	s1b/m2	AG + IMA	A
6		s1b/m1	s2/m2	AG	A
7		s1b/m1	s1b/m2	AG + IM	B (Low GCIR)
8	babA2	Pos	Neg	NAG	A
9		Neg	Pos	AG + IM	A