Undercooked ground beef and person-to-person transmission as major risk factors for sporadic hemolytic uremic syndrome related to shiga-toxin producing escherchia coli infections in children in france

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 650-653

  Vaillant, Véronique ^a   Espié, Emmanuelle ^a   de Valk, Henriette ^a   Durr, Ulrike ^a   Barataud, Delphine ^a   Bouvet, Philippe ^a   Grimont, Francine ^a   Desenclos, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; Risk factors; Shiga toxin

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; FRANCE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FRANCE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEAT; RISK FACTORS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77449126974     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181993731     Document Type: Article

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