Table 6.

Relation between the sex of patients and virulence factors:

	Male	Female	p
cagA +	84	89	> 0.05
oipA+	111	144	< 0.05
iceA1	78	91
iceA2	17	28	0.05
iceA1/iceA2	40	27
m1s1	19	11
m2s1	19	16	< 0.001
m1/m2	49	39
m2s2	40	88