A family outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and haemorrhagic colitis caused by verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157 from unpasteurised cow's milk in Slovakia

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 576-578

  Liptakova, A ^a   Siegfried, L ^a   Rosocha, J ^a   Podracka, L ^a   Bogyiova, E ^a   Kotulova, D ^b  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli O157; Haemolytic uraemic syndrome; Milk; Outbreak; Verocytotoxin

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MALE; MILK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 3242730405     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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