Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 25, 23 June 2011
Editorials
The new face of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections
A Jansen (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, J T Kielstein<SUP>2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Jansen A, Kielstein JT. The new face of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(25)
ii=19898. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19898
Date of submission: 22 June 2011 <HR>The unprecedented outbreak of Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC) O104:H4 in Germany in May and June 2011 displayed several novel epidemiological, microbiological and clinical features. Infection with STEC/VTEC, also referred to as enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), with or without haemorrhagic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which is usually a disease of pre-school children and equally distributed among the sexes, affected in the current outbreak mostly women over the age of 20 years (87%). In addition, several intriguing microbiological characteristics of the new epidemic strain have just been published [1,2].
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 25, 23 June 2011
Editorials
The new face of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections
A Jansen (
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School Hannover, Germany
Citation style for this article: Jansen A, Kielstein JT. The new face of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(25)
ii=19898. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19898 Date of submission: 22 June 2011 <HR>The unprecedented outbreak of Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC) O104:H4 in Germany in May and June 2011 displayed several novel epidemiological, microbiological and clinical features. Infection with STEC/VTEC, also referred to as enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), with or without haemorrhagic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which is usually a disease of pre-school children and equally distributed among the sexes, affected in the current outbreak mostly women over the age of 20 years (87%). In addition, several intriguing microbiological characteristics of the new epidemic strain have just been published [1,2].
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