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Article History

Received: 28 August 2018

Accepted: 14 November 2018

First Online: 7 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals, Cork, Ireland (ECM 4 (zz) 03/12/13). All patients gave written informed consent prior to their participation in the study. We selected healthy volunteers who had symptoms consistent with <i>H. pylori</i> infection and randomized those participants whose 13C-UBT scores confirmed <i>H. pylori</i> infection.

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