Costs of diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection: when does choosing the treatment regimen based on susceptibility testing become cost effective?

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Published in Am J Gastroenterol on March 01, 1999

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T Breuer1, D Y Graham

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1: VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

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