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Transmission and strain variation of Shigella flexneri 4a after mass prophylaxis in a long-stay psychiatric centre.

Epidemiology and infection - 1 Feb 2013

Ko C F, Wang L Y, Lin N T, Chiou C S, Yeh H C, Renn J H, Lee Y S

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Shigella flexneri 4a caused sustained outbreaks in a large long-stay psychiatric centre, Taiwan, 2001-2006. Trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (SXT) prophylaxis was administered in 2004. We recovered 108 S. flexneri 4a isolates from 83 symptomatic (including one caregiver) and 12 asymptomatic subject...

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PMID: 22364591
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000209
PMCID: PMC9152077

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