The epidemiology of hemolytic uremic syndrome in Argentina. Diagnosis of the etiologic agent, reservoirs and routes of transmission;Epidemiologia del sindrome uremico hemolitico en Argentina. Diagnostico del agente etiologico, reservorios y vias de transmission

Medicina

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages 27-32

  Rivas, Marta ^a   Miliwebsky, Elizabeth ^a   Chinen, Isabel ^a   Deza, Natalia ^a   Leotta, Gerardo A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic surveillance; HUS; Microbiologic diagnosis; STEC

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LEE PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HAND WASHING; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEROTYPING; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SHEEP; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 33845775695     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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