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Among bacterial enteritis of hospitalized Korean children, shigellosis was the most frequent
diarrheal disease. During the ten-year period(1972〜 1981), 319 strains of shigella were isolated
from 319 different diarrheal patients; 261 of 319 strains(81.8%) were Shigella flexneri, 49(15.3%) were
S.sonnei, 5 and 4(1.5% & 1.2%) were S. boydii and S. dysenteriae, respectively. Every year
S. flexneri appeared to be the most frequent... |
