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HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis.

Emerg Infect Dis. 1999 Nov-Dec;5(6):820-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/20070440
Baer JT; Vugia DJ; Reingold AL; Aragon T; Angulo FJ; Bradford WZ; California Emerging Infections Program, San Francisco,; California, USA

Abstract: We investigated cases of shigellosis in San Francisco and Alameda Counties identified during 1996 by active laboratory surveillance to assess the role of HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis. Dramatically elevated rates of shigellosis in HIV-infected persons implicate HIV infection as an important risk factor for shigellosis in San Francisco.

Keywords: JOURNAL ARTICLE Adolescence Adult Aged Child Child, Preschool Dysentery, Bacillary/DIAGNOSIS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/*ETIOLOGY Female Homosexuality, Male Hospitalization Human HIV Infections/*COMPLICATIONS Incidence Male Middle Age Population Surveillance/METHODS Risk Factors San Francisco/EPIDEMIOLOGY Shigella flexneri/*ISOLATION & PURIF Shigella sonnei/*ISOLATION & PURIF Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. Travel

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