Shiga toxin-mediated hemolytic uremic syndrome: time to change the diagnostic paradigm?
<h4>Background</h4>Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is caused by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) which possess genes encoding Shiga toxin (stx), the major virulence factor, and adhesin intimin (eae). However, the frequency of stx-negative/eae-positive E. coli in stools of HUS pa...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007
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