Shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli serotype OX3:H21 as a cause of hemolytic-uremic syndrome

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1278-1279

  Keskimäki, Markku ^a   Ikäheimo, Risto ^b   Kärkkäinen, Päivi ^b   Scheutz, Flemming ^b   Ratiner, Yuli ^b   Puohiniemi, Ritvaleena ^b   Siitonen, Anja ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE ISOLATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGED; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0031011472     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513668     Document Type: Article

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