Hemolytic uremic syndrome due to shiga-like toxin producing Escherichia coli 048:H21 in South Australia

Emerg Infect Dis. 1995 Oct-Dec;1(4):132-3. doi: 10.3201/eid0104.950405.

Authors

P N Goldwater¹, K A Bettelheim

Affiliation

¹ Microbiology and Infectious Disease Services, Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Australia / epidemiology
Bacterial Toxins / genetics
Bacterial Toxins / metabolism*
Bacteriological Techniques
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Outbreaks
Escherichia coli / genetics
Escherichia coli / metabolism*
Escherichia coli Infections / diagnosis*
Escherichia coli Infections / epidemiology
Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
Feces / microbiology
Female
Genes, Bacterial
Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / diagnosis*
Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / epidemiology
Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / microbiology*
Humans
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Shiga Toxin 1
Shiga Toxin 2

Substances

Bacterial Toxins
Shiga Toxin 1
Shiga Toxin 2