Agreement rate of rapid urease test, conventional PCR, and scorpion real-time PCR in detecting helicobacter pylori from tonsillar samples of patients with chronic tonsillitis.

Background: Helicobacter pylori is capable of inducing systemic inflammatory reactions through immunological processes. There are several methods to identify the presence of H. pylori in clinical samples including rapid urease test (RUT), conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the Scorpion real-time PCR.