Investigation on an outbreak of bacillary dysentery due to infection of Shigella sonnei in a town of Guangxi Province

• Published in: Dialogues in health Vol. 2; p. 100072
• Main Authors: Ren, Tian, Yuyan, Jiang, Huan, Lu, Yingxin, Pei, Dongmei, Tan, Qiumei, Deng, Zhong, Yanxu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: Case-control study; Outbreak; SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation; Shigella; Case-control study; Shigella; Outbreak

To provide a scientific basis for identifying the causes of an outbreak and providing preventive and control measures to prevent the recurrence of similar outbreaks. A case-control study. We defined a suspected case as residents living in the affected town presented with inexplicable diarrhea (≥3 ti...