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[Acute diarrhea outbreak caused by Shigella flexneri at a school in Madrid, Cundinamarca: phenotypic and genotypic characterization of the isolates].
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - 1 Sept 2002
Hidalgo Marylin, Realpe María Elena, Muñoz Nélida, Sicard Diego, Silva Esperanza, Agudelo Clara Inés, Castañeda Elizabeth
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Shigellosis is an acute diarrhoeal disease that is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. In 1997, the Colombian Instituto Nacional de Salud Microbiology Group organized a network surveillance program with the country's Public Health Laboratories (PHLs) to monitor the principal etiological agents responsible for acute diarrhoeal disease. In May, 2001, the PHL of the state of...
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