Zeitschrift für immunologische Techniken und Infektionskrankheiten

Helicobacter pylori Infection and its Potential Role in Childhood Eczema

Ali AM, Ayman MN and Mahmoud MA

 Helicobacter pylori Infection and its Potential Role in Childhood Eczema

To determine whether Helicobacter pylori is associated with childhood eczema. A total of 170 patients with Eczema (atopic dermatitis) who were 2 months to 7 years old and had fulfilled the American Academy of Dermatology Criteria for atopic dermatitis (AD), and a total of 160 healthy controls with no history of atopic condition were matched by country of origin, age, sex, family size, socio- demographic variables and ethnicity to the 170 atopic cases.