Cholera with severe renal failure in an Italian tourist returning from Cuba, July 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 35, 2013, Pages

  Mascarello, M ^a   Deiana, M L ^a   Maurel, C ^a   Lucarelli, C ^b   Luzzi, I ^a   Luzzati, R ^a  

^a University of Triest   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHOLERA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TACHYCARDIA; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84883408530     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.35.20572     Document Type: Article

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