Home-prepared hamburger and sporadic hemolytic uremic syndrome, Argentina [6]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1184-1186

  Rivas, Marta ^a,d   Caletti, María Gracia ^b   Chinen, Isabel ^a   Refi, Stella Maris ^c   Roldán, Carlos Daniel ^b   Chillemi, Germán ^a   Fiorilli, Graciela ^b   Bertolotti, Alicia ^c   Aguerre, Lorena ^a   Estani, Sergio Sosa ^a  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio Central de Salud Publica   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; UREA DERIVATIVE; VEROTOXIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANURIA; ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEEF CATTLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROANGIOPATHY; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEINURIA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

EID: 0041315506     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.020563     Document Type: Letter

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