摘要:In early 1995 an outbreak of 23 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) occurred in children (ranging from four months to 12 years of age) in South Australia.1Twenty of the cases were managed in a tertiary paediatric hospital in Adelaide, where 18 (90%) required dialysis.2A 4-year-old died and 12 months after discharge 5 of the surviving children still had significantly impaired renal function