论文信息 - Clotest (rapid urease test) in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection.

Clotest (rapid urease test) in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection.

Over a period of 3 months, 85 patients who underwent gastroscopy had antral biopsy taken for Clotest, histology and/or culture for Helicobacter pylori (HP). The sensitivity and specificity of Clotest were found to be 77% and 96% respectively with negative predictive value of 63% and positive predictive value of 98%. Ninety-two percent of the positive Clotests were positive within 20 minutes, thus giving rapid result. Therefore, Clotest is a rapid, sensitive and highly specific test for HP infection. A high correlation between HP infection and chronic gastritis was noted and the prevalence of HP infection in patients with duodenal ulcer (90%) was higher than that of gastric ulcer (64%) or non-ulcer group (65%).

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