Table 2. The prevalence of 12bp insertion by polymerase chain reaction in Okinawa, Japan.
Total | Positive | ||
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East-Asian-type cagA/vacA s1m1 | 222 | 5 | (2.3%) |
East-Asian-type cagA/vacA s1m2 | 20 | 2 | (10.0%) |
Western-type cagA/vacA s1m1 | 14 | 8 | (57.1%) |
Western-type cagA/vacA s1m2 | 37 | 31 | (83.8%) |
Western-type cagA/vacA s2m2 | 0 | 0 | (0.0%) |
cag A-negative/vacA s2m2 | 43 | 0 | (0.0%) |
cagA type was determined based on the 3′ region of cagA sequence