Circulating microRNAs in patients with Shiga-Toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 induced hemolytic uremic syndrome.

BACKGROUND: In early May 2011, an outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis associated with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) first developed in Northern Germany and spread to 15 other countries in Europe. The outbreak-strain O104:H4, which combined virulence factors of typical enteroaggregative and Shiga-Toxin...

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Main Authors: Johan M Lorenzen, Jan Menne, Bernhard M W Schmidt, Mascha Schmidt, Filippo Martino, Robert Dietrich, Senguel Samiri, Hans Worthmann, Meike Heeren, Karin Weissenborn, Hermann Haller, Mario Schiffer, Jan T Kielstein, Thomas Thum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3469502?pdf=render