Table 1.
Antibiotic susceptibility (clarithromycin): studies on Helicobacter pylori stool DNA by real time polymerase chain reaction
| Ref. | Reference standard | Sensitivity | Specificity | Clarithromycin resistance |
| Scaletsky et al[32] | PCR on gastric biopsy | 83.3% | 100.0% | 26.7% |
| 1Vécsei et al[38] | Culture | 89.2% | 100.0% | 45.1% |
| Noguchi et al[33] | Culture | NA | NA | 20.4% |
| Rimbara et al[34] | Culture | 96.6% | 91.3% | 13.3% |
| 1Booka et al[35] | Culture | NA | NA | 31.0% |
| Schabereiter-Gurtner et al[36] | Culture | 98.0% | 98.0% | 24.4% |
| Fontana et al[37] | Culture | 100.0% | 100.0% | 1.6% |
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Pediatric population. NA: Not assessed.