P0851 Decreasing Trends of Helicobacter Pylori Infection Prevalence in Children Submitted to Digestive Endoscopy at an Industrial City From a Developing Country

Kawakami, Elisabete; Machado, Rodrigo Strehl; Ogata, Silvio Kazuo; Scuissiato, M. L.; Araf, Litza Neves; Portorreal, Aurea; Escobar, Mario Luis; Neto, Ulysses Fagundes

doi:10.1097/00005176-200406001-00975

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“…The prevalence of H pylori infection in the greater metropolitan city of our country is decreasing and so are the figures for gastrointestinal infection. A retrospective study in Sa ˜o Paulo (26) with 1165 symptomatic children who underwent upper digestive showed decreasing prevalence of 25%, 19.3%, and 14.3% between 1993 and 1996, 1997 and 1999, and 2000 and 2004, respectively, in children up to 6 years old. Nevertheless, studies performed in poor socioeconomic areas of our country demonstrated high prevalence similar to that in developing countries (27)(28)(29)(30).…”

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