The German 2011 epidemic of Shiga toxin-producing E. Coli-the nephrological view

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2723-2726

  Kielstein, Jan T ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; crisis management; German Society of Nephrology; hemolytic uremic syndrome; therapeutic plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

ECULIZUMAB; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; VEROTOXIN 2;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; NEPHROLOGY; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053179648     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr462     Document Type: Editorial

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