Post-dysenteric hemolytic uremic syndrome in children during an epidemic of Shigella dysentery in Kwazulu/Natal

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 560-564

  Bhimma, Rajendra ^a,b   Rollins, Nigel C ^a   Coovadia, Hoosen M ^a   Adhikari, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dysentery; Encephalopathy; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVULSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSENTERY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKEMOID REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SEPTICEMIA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0030777344     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004670050338     Document Type: Article

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