Recent trends in the epidemiology of shigellosis in Israel

We provide an update on the epidemiology of shigellosis in Israel using data generated by a sentinel laboratory-based surveillance network for the period 1998–2012. The average annual incidence of culture-proven shigellosis was 97/100 000. We estimated that each case of shigellosis accounted for 25...

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Veröffentlicht in:Epidemiology and infection 2014-12, Vol.142 (12), p.2583-2594
Hauptverfasser: COHEN, D., BASSAL, R., GOREN, S., ROUACH, T., TARAN, D., SCHEMBERG, B., PELED, N., KENESS, Y., KEN-DROR, S., VASILEV, V., NISSAN, I., AGMON, V., SHOHAT, T.
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Zusammenfassung:We provide an update on the epidemiology of shigellosis in Israel using data generated by a sentinel laboratory-based surveillance network for the period 1998–2012. The average annual incidence of culture-proven shigellosis was 97/100 000. We estimated that each case of shigellosis accounted for 25 cases in the community indicating the high burden of disease. Orthodox Jewish communities, living in highly crowded conditions and with a high number of children aged
ISSN:0950-2688
1469-4409
DOI:10.1017/S0950268814000260