title: Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France.
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.
authors: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. srubino@jidc.org
authors: Salvatore
authors: S
authors: Rubino
authors: Piero
authors: P
authors: Cappuccinelli
authors: David J
authors: DJ
authors: Kelvin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D005838:Genotype; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006463:Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012703:Serotyping; D054323:Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*