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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Epidemic shigella dysenteriae type 1 in burundi: Panresistance and implications for prevention
Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 169, No. 5, Year 1994
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Description
An epidemic of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 infections has affected Africa since 1979. Reported dysentery cases increase sharply in Burundi during September through December. Of stool samples from 189 patients reporting bloody diarrhea in November 1990, a pathogen was identified in 123 (65%). The pathogen was S. dysenteriae type 1 in 82 (67%). All S. dysenteriae type 1 isolates were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid, streptomycin, sulfisoxazole, tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Thirty-two specimens (26%) yielded other Shigella species. Patients with S. dysenteriae type 1 were more likely than those with other Shigella infections to have abdominal pain, “lots of blood” in the stool, blood in the stool specimen examined by the interviewer, recent contact with a person with dysentery, or recent antimicrobial treatment. Thus, the seasonal increase in dysentery was due largely to multidrug-resistant S. dysenteriae type 1, clinical and epidemiologic features may predict such infection, and efforts to control this epidemic must focus on preventing transmission. © 1994 The University of Chicago.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ries, Allen A.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Wells, Joy G.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Olivoia, Danielle
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Ntakibirora, Marcelline
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Nyandwi, Stanislas
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Ntibakivayo, Mathilde
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Ivey, Cecile B.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Greene, Katherine D.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Tenover, Fred C.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Wahlquist, Susanne P.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Griffin, Patricia Marie
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Tauxe, Robert V.
United States, Atlanta
National Center for Infectious Diseases
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burundi, Bujumbura
Ministry of Health
Statistics
Citations: 99
Authors: 12
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/infdis/169.5.1035
ISSN:
00221899
e-ISSN:
15376613
Study Locations
Burundi