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Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Research

Gastroenteritis and Transmission of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Households1

Sharon Perry*Comments to Author , Maria de la Luz Sanchez*, Shufang Yang*, Thomas D. Haggerty*, Philip Hurst†, Guillermo Perez-Perez‡, and Julie Parsonnet*
Author affiliations: *Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; †Santa Clara County Health and Hospital Systems, San Jose, California, USA; ‡New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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Table 2

Case listing of 30 new infections*

Household–contact no. Age (y) GE Criteria
No. Helicobacter pylori–infected contacts
IgG Stool IgM Without GE With diarrhea With vomiting
Definite
1–1 1.2 D/V + + - 1 0 0
2–1 1.3 D/V + + - 2 0 0
3–1 1.5 D/V + + - 2 1 0
4–3 10 D/V + + 0 0 2
5–5† 11 D/V + + 0 3 1
6–3 23 D + + 0 0 1
7–2 37 D + + 3 0 1
Probable
8–1 0.74 D/V + + 1 0 0
9–1 0.77 V + + 0 0 0
10–1 2.3 D/V + (B) + 0 0 0
11–1 3.6 D/V + (B) + 0 1 0
12–2† 21 + (B) + 2 0 0
13–2 23 D + (B) + 0 0 1
14–2 42 + (B) + 0 0 0
Possible
15–5 0.3 + 0 0 0
16–1 0.33 D + - 1 0 0
17–1 0.6 D/V + - 4 0 0
18–1 0.8 D/V + 0 0 0
19–1 0.9 D/V + - 1 0 0
20–1 1.0 D + - 1 0 0
21–1 1.1 D/V + - 1 0 0
22–1 1.2 D/V + 0 1 0
23–1 1.3 D/V + - 0 0 0
24–1 1.9 D/V + 3 0 0
25–1 6.3 D + 0 0 0
26–3 7 + (B) - 1 0 1
5–3† 7.6 D/V + (B) - 0 3 1
28–1 7.8 V + (B) - 3 0 0
29–4 8.5 + 2 0 0
12–4† 12.2 + (B) - 0 0 0

*GE, gastroenteritis; D, diarrhea only; V, vomiting only; D/V, diarrhea with vomiting; B, borderline seroconversion with >4-fold increase in H. pylori titer.
†Cases occurring within the same household.

*GE, gastroenteritis; D, diarrhea only; V, vomiting only; D/V, diarrhea with vomiting; B, borderline seroconversion with >4-fold increase in H. pylori titer.
†Cases occurring within the same household.

*GE, gastroenteritis; D, diarrhea only; V, vomiting only; D/V, diarrhea with vomiting; B, borderline seroconversion with >4-fold increase in H. pylori titer.
†Cases occurring within the same household.

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1Portions of this manuscript were presented in preliminary form at Digestive Disease Week 2005, May 15–19, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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