Escherichia coli O104, Germany 2011

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 652-653

  Pennington, Hugh ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104 H4; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUROPE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENE LOCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80051828240     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70166-9     Document Type: Letter

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