Helicobacter pylori’s Seven-housekeeping Gene and CagA EPIYA Motif Patterns Linking to Gastrointestinal Diseases

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Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 163, 2025 2025 15^th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (ICBBB 2025)


Article Number		01002
Number of page(s)		17
Section		Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202516301002
Published online		06 March 2025

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