Table 1.

Overall eradication rate at intention to treat (ITT) and per protocol (PP) analysis.

Country	Setting	Patients	Cured	ITT (%)	PP (%)	Reference
Italy	Adult	52	51	98.1	98.1	Zullo et al. [2000]
Italy	Adult	65	61	93.8	96.8	De Francesco et al. [2001]
Italy	Adult	94	90	95.7	95.7	Focareta et al. [2003]
Italy	Adult	522	481	92.1	95.1	Zullo et al. [2003]
Italy	Adult	152	142	93.4	96.6	Hassan et al. [2003]
Italy	Adult	174	166	95.4	95.4	Focareta et al. [2003]
Italy	Adult	162	151	93.2	94.4	De Francesco et al. [2004a]
Italy	Adult	45	43	95.6	97.7	De Francesco et al. [2004b]
Italy	Adult	116	110	94.8	95.6	De Francesco et al. [2004c]
Italy	Adult	40	38	95	97.4	Zullo et al. [2004]
Italy	Geriatric	89	84	94.4	96.6	Zullo et al. [2005]
Italy	Peadiatric	38	36	94.7	94.7	Francavilla et al. [2005]
Italy	Adult	72	68	94.4	97.1	Scaccianoce et al. [2006]
Italy	Paediatric	40	33	82.5	82.5	Lionetti et al. [2006]
Italy	Paediatric	25	23	92.0	92.0	Lerro et al. [2006]
Romania	Paediatric	45	39	86.6	86.6	Hurduc et al. [2007]
Italy	Adult	146	133	91.1	93.0	Vaira et al. [2007]
Italy	Paediatric	108	92	85.2	85.2	Francavilla et al. [2008]
Italy	Adult	90	78	86.7	88.6	Paoluzi et al. [2008]
Spain	Adult	139	117	84.2	90.7	Sanchez-Delgado et al. [2008]
Taiwan	Adult	66	59	89.4	98.3	Wu et al. [2008]
Korea	Adult	77	60	77.9	85.7	Choi et al. [2008]
Panama	Adult	76	65	85.5	85.5	Ruiz-Obaldia et al. [2008]
Total		2.433	2.220	91.2	93.7