Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2010)

Rescue Therapy Using a Rifabutin-Based Regimen is Effective for Cure of Helicobacter pylori Infection

  • Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten,
  • Snehal Desai,
  • Linda Best,
  • Geraldine Cooper-Lesins,
  • Dickran Malatjalian,
  • David Haldane,
  • Kevork Peltekian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/637908
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 5
pp. 303 – 306

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of rescue therapy using rifabutin, amoxicillin and a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori in patients who have failed at least one course of PPI-based triple therapy.