Molecular epidemiology of a household outbreak of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Poland due to secondary transmission of STEC O104: H4 from Germany

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 552-558

  Januszkiewicz, Aleksandra ^a   Szych, Jolanta ^a   Rastawicki, Waldemar ^a   Wołkowicz, Tomasz ^a   Chróst, Anna ^a   Leszczyńska, Beata ^b   Kuźma, Elzbieta ^b   Roszkowska Blaim, Maria ^b   Gierczyński, Rafał ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CEFUROXIME; CREATININE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; POTASSIUM; RIFAXIMIN; UREA;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GERMANY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOTYPE; POLAND; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FECES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLAND; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84858124802     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.039289-0     Document Type: Article

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