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HPylori (Diagnostic Solutions)
What's Included?

  • Fasting: No fasting
  • Sample type: Stool
  • Delivery: Kit mailed to you from Diagnostic Solutions arrives in 3 to 5 days for at-home collection.
  • Turnaround time: 5 to 10 days
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    The H. pylori DNA Biopsy Profile offers the latest Real-Time qPCR Molecular Technology. DNA based testing offers significant advantages to other methods. Including testing for Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Virulence Factors.

    Patient treatment efficacy is greatly improved with phenotypic antibiotic resistance testing to guide treatment protocols. Additionally, Virulence Factor testing can help to identify the symptoms that H. pylori is contributing to and potential to cause disease.Helicobacter pylori has been evolving with human beings for well over 50,000 years, since they migrated out of Africa. H. pylori colonization has been implicated in a variety of gastroduodenal diseases including gastritis, gastric cancer, and duodenal and peptic ulcer. H. pylori has also been detected by stool PCR in cases of dyspepsia, abdominal pain, and chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. It is infamous for its causal link to ulcers and gastric cancer, which resulted in a Nobel prize awarded to Robin Warren and Barry Marshall in 2005. However, some sources are suggesting its role, at least in part, as a commensal organism. H.pylori may protect its host from certain atopic disorders,as well as other diseases such as esophageal cancer reflux, and obesity.
    Fifty percent of the world’s population is believed to be infected with H. pylori but only 2% of those develop gastric cancer. H. pylori may be asymptomatic and require no treatment or only supportive care to improve the intestinal mucosa and gastrointestinal lining. H. pylori may cause hypochlorhydria or hyperchlorhydria. Positive virulence genes represent the potential for an H. pylori strain to create pathology. Information about the potential for virulence may help the clinician determine if H. pylori treatment is necessary.

    MyMedLab Product ID: 1794