In France, every year 1 million people are explored for Helicobacter pylori infection and 200,000 receive eradication treatment. Faced with the high prevalence of Hp resistance to antibiotics, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) has recommended since 2017 a treatment strategy guided by the results of bacteriological tests (culture and antibiogram and / or PCR) carried out from gastric biopsies. Guided therapy is more effective, cheaper, and better tolerated than empiric therapy (it includes fewer antibiotics). But the guided treatment is not used despite the recommendations because of the invasive nature of the endoscopy, the difficulty of culture and the non-reimbursement of the PCR. A new non-invasive test by real-time PCR performed on the stools of patients makes it possible to detect the Hp infection and its sensitivity to clarithromycin and therefore to guide the treatment with excellent performance as we have been able to demonstrate during a study including 1200 patients (Pichon et al J Clin Microbiol 2020). These characteristics allow this test to be used in primary care but has to be evaluated.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
245
Patients receive a prescription for a stool self-collection kit.
Patients receive a prescription for an Hp serology. A positive serological test will lead to a gastroscopy with biopsies for histology/pathological and bacteriological analyses.
Vincent HELIS
Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan, France
philippe BRAVIN
Jarnac-Champagne, France
Gwenaelle FARCY
La Mothe-Saint-Héray, France
Marie ROCHEPEAU
La Mothe-Saint-Héray, France
Claude SAPIN
La Roche-Posay, France
Lise BLANCHARD
Mignaloux-Beauvoir, France
ARCHAMBAULT Pierrick
Nueil-les-Aubiers, France
Marc CHABANNE
Pont Labbe Darnoult, France
Elodie POUPIN
Saint-Germain-de-Marencennes, France
Vincent JEDAT
Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France
...and 3 more locations
Proportion of patients with a negative urea breath test (proof of Hp eradication)
Urea breath test is carried out 6 weeks after the end of treatment
Time frame: up to 4 months after inclusion
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