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AAP Grand Rounds 4:50 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics
| Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA |
| The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below. |
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
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