Importance of environmental transmission in cases of EHEC O157 causing hemolytic uremic syndrome

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 268-271

  Grif, K ^a   Orth, D ^a   Lederer, I ^b   Berghold, C ^b   Roedl, S ^c   MacHe, C J ^c   Dierich, M P ^a   Wurzner R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 2;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CATTLE FARMING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COW; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRASS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MANURE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MANURE; SHEEP;

EID: 20044377606     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-005-1320-z     Document Type: Article

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