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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013 Feb;28(2):291–296. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12067

Table 2. The prevalence of 12bp insertion by polymerase chain reaction in Okinawa, Japan.

Total Positive
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