Objectives: To detect the prevalence of H. pylori in patients with gastritis B.
Methods: This study involved 58 patients (group A) with gastritis B attending the Al-Sadder teaching hospital from January to November 2008. 120 of family's patients (group B) and normal 20 people, 10 males 10 females (group C) were taken as controls for presence of H. pylori infection in general population. Endoscopy was carried for all patients to diagnose gastritis B. Urease, ELISA test, and culturing on Columbia agar used to detect the presence of H. pylori in these patients
Results: Fifty-eight patients; 30 males (51.7%) and 28 females (48.3%) were infected with gastritis B. The results showed that 81% of the patients gave positive results of serum IgG anti body.
Conclusion: The results showed that for screening and determining the clinical features of gastritis B, at least two methods for H. pylori are required to give positive result at the same time for the same patient, in order to identify an infected patient with from H. pylori.