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To the Editor: Wong et al. (June 29 issue)¹ report an association between antibiotic treatment in children with acute diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the development of the hemolytic–uremic syndrome. In Chile, shigella species cause 30 percent of cases of bloody diarrhea in children and enterohemorrhagic strains of E. coli cause 37 percent of such cases² — a situation that may also be common in developing countries. For children with acute bloody diarrhea in these countries, the most widely accepted recommendation is to obtain a stool culture and initiate empirical antibiotic treatment for shigella, because appropriate treatment shortens . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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