Shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli (STEC)

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-45

  Hunt, John M ^a,b  

^a Clinical and Public Health Microbiology   (United States)

^b REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Enterohemorrhagic; Escherichia coli; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; STEC; Verotoxigenic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CATTLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE FLORA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; SHIGA TOXIN;

EID: 77953351486     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2009.11.001     Document Type: Review

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