The role of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli in hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 260-265

  Cleary, Thomas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SHIGA TOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE CELL; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VOMITING;

EID: 5644224821     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.spid.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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