Use of antibiotics in suspected haemolytic-uraemic syndrome

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7488, 2005, Pages 409-410

  Phillips, Bob ^a   Tyerman, Kay ^a   Whiteley, Simon M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; CHILD; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; PROGNOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 13844319561     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7488.409     Document Type: Review

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