Epidemiologic characteristics of Helicobacter pylori infection in southeast Hungary

Table 5 The prevalence between 1990 and 2000 throughout the country

Date	1993	1999	2000	1998-2000
Region	Tolna	Vas	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	Pest
Authors	Tamássy et al[15]	Lakner et al[6]	Iszlai et al[16]	Prónai et al[19]
Method	Serology	Serology	Serology	13C-UBT
Population	Blood donors	Blood donors	Healthy volunteers	Symptomatic patients
n =	400	533	756	1027
Prevalence of H. pylori (%)	63.3	62.3	58.6	47.3

H. pylori: Helicobacter pylori.