Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France

Salvatore Rubino; Piero Cappuccinelli; David J Kelvin

doi:10.3855/jidc.2172

Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France

Authors

Salvatore Rubino Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Piero Cappuccinelli Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
David J Kelvin University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.2172

Keywords:

EAEC, EHEC, HUS, Outbreak O104, H4

Abstract

At the beginning of May an outbreak of bloody diarrhoea and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) began in Germany. During the succeeding months following the initial outbreak in Germany, thousands of infections occurred resulting in 877 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) with 32 deaths and 3,043 cases of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) with 16 deaths

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Published

2011-07-03

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Rubino S, Cappuccinelli P, Kelvin DJ (2011) Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France. J Infect Dev Ctries 5:437–440. doi: 10.3855/jidc.2172

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Vol. 5 No. 06: June 2011

Section

Outbreak

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