Hemolytic-uremic syndrome in a six-year-old girl after a urinary tract infection with shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O103:H2

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 635-638

  Tarr, Phillip I ^a,b   Fouser, Laurie S ^a,b   Stapleton, Ann E ^b   Wilson, Richard A ^c   Kim, Harold H ^a   Vary Jr , James C ^a   Clausen, Carla R ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CYTOTOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SHIGA TOXINS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029821432     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199608293350905     Document Type: Article

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