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hemorrhagic colitis

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hemorrhagic colitis
n.
Abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea, without fever, attributed to a self-limited infection by a strain of Escherichia coli.


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coli O157:H7, including hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
The A5 clonal complex of GUD+ O 157:H7 was represented solely by strain G5101, isolated from a hemorrhagic colitis patient in the United States in 1994 (5).
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