Skip to main content
PMC home page
Emerging Infectious Diseases logoLink to Emerging Infectious Diseases
. 1997 Jul-Sep;3(3):409–412. doi: 10.3201/eid0303.970329

Hemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance to monitor trends in infection with Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other shiga toxin-producing E. coli.

B E Mahon, P M Griffin, P S Mead, R V Tauxe
PMCID: PMC2627651  PMID: 9284395

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (22.1 KB).

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Belongia E. A., Osterholm M. T., Soler J. T., Ammend D. A., Braun J. E., MacDonald K. L. Transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in Minnesota child day-care facilities. JAMA. 1993 Feb 17;269(7):883–888. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Boyce T. G., Pemberton A. G., Wells J. G., Griffin P. M. Screening for Escherichia coli O157:H7--a nationwide survey of clinical laboratories. J Clin Microbiol. 1995 Dec;33(12):3275–3277. doi: 10.1128/jcm.33.12.3275-3277.1995. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Cieslak P. R., Noble S. J., Maxson D. J., Empey L. C., Ravenholt O., Legarza G., Tuttle J., Doyle M. P., Barrett T. J., Wells J. G. Hamburger-associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in Las Vegas: a hidden epidemic. Am J Public Health. 1997 Feb;87(2):176–180. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.2.176. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Goldwater P. N., Bettelheim K. A. An outbreak of hemolytic uremic syndrome due to Escherichia coli O157:H7: or was it? Emerg Infect Dis. 1996 Apr-Jun;2(2):153–154. doi: 10.3201/eid0202.960218. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Huppertz H. I., Busch D., Schmidt H., Aleksic S., Karch H. Diarrhea in young children associated with Escherichia coli non-O157 organisms that produce Shiga-like toxin. J Pediatr. 1996 Mar;128(3):341–346. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(96)70278-0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Johnson R. H., Rumans L. W. Unusual infections caused by Pasteurella multocida. JAMA. 1977 Jan 10;237(2):146–147. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Kinney J. S., Gross T. P., Porter C. C., Rogers M. F., Schonberger L. B., Hurwitz E. S. Hemolytic-uremic syndrome: a population-based study in Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland. Am J Public Health. 1988 Jan;78(1):64–65. doi: 10.2105/ajph.78.1.64. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Leung R., Jassal J. Pasteurella epiglottitis. Aust N Z J Med. 1994 Apr;24(2):218–218. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1994.tb00561.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. Lopez E. L., Diaz M., Grinstein S., Devoto S., Mendilaharzu F., Murray B. E., Ashkenazi S., Rubeglio E., Woloj M., Vasquez M. Hemolytic uremic syndrome and diarrhea in Argentine children: the role of Shiga-like toxins. J Infect Dis. 1989 Sep;160(3):469–475. doi: 10.1093/infdis/160.3.469. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. March S. B., Ratnam S. Sorbitol-MacConkey medium for detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with hemorrhagic colitis. J Clin Microbiol. 1986 May;23(5):869–872. doi: 10.1128/jcm.23.5.869-872.1986. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. Martin D. L., MacDonald K. L., White K. E., Soler J. T., Osterholm M. T. The epidemiology and clinical aspects of the hemolytic uremic syndrome in Minnesota. N Engl J Med. 1990 Oct 25;323(17):1161–1167. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199010253231703. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. MayoSmith M. F., Hirsch P. J., Wodzinski S. F., Schiffman F. J. Acute epiglottitis in adults. An eight-year experience in the state of Rhode Island. N Engl J Med. 1986 May 1;314(18):1133–1139. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198605013141801. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  13. Rowe P. C., Orrbine E., Ogborn M., Wells G. A., Winther W., Lior H., Manuel D., McLaine P. N. Epidemic Escherichia coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in a Canadian inuit community: intestinal illness in family members as a risk factor. J Pediatr. 1994 Jan;124(1):21–26. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(94)70249-7. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  14. Rowe P. C., Orrbine E., Wells G. A., McLaine P. N. Epidemiology of hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Canadian children from 1986 to 1988. The Canadian Pediatric Kidney Disease Reference Centre. J Pediatr. 1991 Aug;119(2):218–224. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80730-9. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  15. Rydberg J., White P. Pasteurella multocida as a cause of acute epiglottitis. Lancet. 1993 Feb 6;341(8841):381–381. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)90193-k. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  16. Siegler R. L., Pavia A. T., Christofferson R. D., Milligan M. K. A 20-year population-based study of postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome in Utah. Pediatrics. 1994 Jul;94(1):35–40. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  17. Weber D. J., Wolfson J. S., Swartz M. N., Hooper D. C. Pasteurella multocida infections. Report of 34 cases and review of the literature. Medicine (Baltimore) 1984 May;63(3):133–154. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Emerging Infectious Diseases are provided here courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

RESOURCES