Table 2.

Distribution of Helicobacter pylori strains in the study population of 19 women and 17 men in relation to gastric topography

H pylori genotype	No. of patients (female/male)
	Antrum	Corpus
cagA(-) vacA s2 m2	8 (5/3)	9 (6/3)
cagA(+) vacA s1 m1	17 (11/6)	17 (11/6)
cagA(+) vacA s1 m2	1 (1/0)	1 (1/0)
cagA(+) vacA s2 m2	2 (1/1)	1 (0/1)
cagA(+) vacA(+) genotype ndt	3 (0/3)	3 (0/3)
cagA(-) vacA(+) genotype ndt	5 (1/4)	5 (1/5)

For 8 patients the genotype of vacA(+) strains was not determined (ndt).