E. coli O104:H4 German outbreak: A missed opportunity

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 558-560

  Ruggenenti, Piero ^a   Remuzzi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ECULIZUMAB; SHIGA TOXIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104 H4; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; ANIMAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE;

EID: 84867002292     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2012.194     Document Type: Short Survey

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