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AAP Grand Rounds 4:50 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics

Letters to the Editors

To the Editors—

Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

 
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The article by Wong et al in the NEJM1 about the risk of HUS after antibiotic treatment of E coli had an error, which was unfortunately magnified rather than corrected in the commentary. HUS occurred in 56% of those who received antibiotics, compared with 8% of those who did not, a 7-fold increase in risk. Still plenty, but not the "almost 20-fold increase" described in . . . [Full Text of this Article]