Te new face of enterohaemorrhagic escherichia coli infections

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Jansen, A ^a   Kielstein, J T ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLON ISCHEMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISORIENTATION; EDITORIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STUPOR; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME;

EID: 79960089780     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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