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KMID : 0378019810240110055
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New Medical Journal
1981 Volume.24 No. 11 p.55 ~ p.58
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A Study of Shigellosis in Nothern Kyungpook Province
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Abstract
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99 cases of shigellosis were evaluated in clinical and bacteriological.
It seems to be vulnerable at age one to four years (83%6), and in late summer through early autumn (50%).
Clinical manifestations are muco-bloody or watery diarrhea (85%6), fever (62%), vomiting (30%) , abdominal pain (29%) , convulsion (26%o), and is complicated with toxic encephalopathy (15%).
Shigella flexneri is isolated predominantly (72%).
The rate of negative stool cultures after seven days´ treatment (combined of rifampin and gentamycin) is 75%.
None of the isolated strains is resistant to rifampin, but high resistant to other antimicrobiological agents as follow: gentamycin (12%), kanamycin)16%) , colistin (16%) , cephalothin (3061), chloramphenicol(%), ampicillin (77%) , streptomycin (82%) and tetracycline (86%).
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