Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pathology That causes
hemorrhage within theintestines
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word enterohemorrhagic.
Examples
-
Angelika Warmuth/European Pressphoto Agency The strain, known as enterohemorrhagic E. coli, can cause bloody diarrhea and, occasionally, kidney failure.
-
Most strains are harmless but some, known as enterohemorrhagic E.coli EHEC, can cause serious illness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
-
Most strains are harmless but some, known as enterohemorrhagic E.coli EHEC, can cause serious illness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
-
Christian Charisius/AFP/Getty Images Medical-technical assistant Brigitte Weiss held a petri dish with a culture medium and bacterial strains of enterohemorrhagic E. coli at a hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, May 24.
-
Techniques used include culture from a wide variety of specimens, special stains, direct antigen detection (Group A streptococci, Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas vaginalis), molecular real-time PCR diagnostics, and toxin assays (Clostridium difficile and enterohemorrhagic E. coli).
Microbiology Lab 2010
-
A bottle of hand disinfectant sits on a table next to a patient suffering from hemolytic-uremic syndrome HUS, a complication that can lead to kidney failure, convulsions and epileptic seizures and caused by enterohemorrhagic E. coli.
USATODAY.com News 2011
-
Another strain, enterohemorrhagic E.coli EHEC O104, has caused six deaths in Germany, and there were 1,536 cases without HUS.
-
Officials previously had reported at least 18 deaths from the bacteria, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, a type that can cause bloody diarrhea and a toxin that damages the kidneys.
-
Another strain, enterohemorrhagic E.coli EHEC O104, has caused six deaths in Germany, and there were 1,536 cases without HUS.
-
Analysis of the bug at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) showed the bacterium is an enterohemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) O104 strain, but is a "new serotype - not previously involved in any E.coli outbreaks".
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.