Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli-associated kidney failure in a 40-year-old patient and late diagnosis by novel bacteriologic and toxin detection methods

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3438-3440

  Teel, Louise D ^a   Steinberg, Brett R ^b   Aronson, Naomi E ^a,b   O'Brien, Alison D ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PREDNISONE; SHIGA TOXIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OCCULT BLOOD; ONSET AGE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PURPURA;

EID: 0038494556     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3438-3440.2003     Document Type: Article

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