Volume 11, Number 4—April 2005

Research

Childhood Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, United Kingdom and Ireland

Richard M. Lynn*, Sarah J. O’Brien†¹ , C. Mark Taylor‡, Goutam K. Adak†, Henrik Chart§, Tom Cheasty§, John E. Coia¶, Iain A. Gillespie†, Mary E. Locking#, William J. Reilly#, Henry R. Smith§, Aoife Waters**, and Geraldine A. Willshaw§

Author affiliations: *Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, United Kingdom; †Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, United Kingdom; ‡Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; §Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom; ¶Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; #Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Glasgow, United Kingdom; and; **The Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

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Figure. Laboratory-confirmed infection with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O157 in the United Kingdom, 1982–2001. Data sources: Public Health Laboratory Service and Scottish Center for Infection and Environmental Health.

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¹Current affiliation: University of Manchester, Salford, United Kingdom

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