| enterohaemorrhagic escherichia coli in central african republic. | a dysentery outbreak in the central african republic village of zemio was diagnosed as "shigella flexneri" by the pasteur institute in bangui (ipb) in february 1996; 2 months later there was an outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis. 108 patients presented with bloody diarrhea; cramping abdominal pain, fever, nausea, and vomiting were uncommon. the illness lasted between 5 days and 3 weeks (average, 8 days). antibiotics were ineffective. four patients died and several developed hemolytic-uremic syn ... | 1997 | 9186391 |
| distribution and antibiotic susceptibility of shigella isolates in bangui, central african republic. | we conducted a prospective study in four urban health care centres between january 2004 and november 2005 to determine the distribution and susceptibility patterns of shigella strains causing invasive diarrhoea in bangui, central african republic. of the 155 shigella isolated, shigella flexneri (51%) and shigella dysenteriae (30%) were the most common and the most resistant to usual antibiotics, including amoxicillin, sulphamethoxazole-trimethoprim and chloramphenicol. though multi-drug resistan ... | 2008 | 18282240 |
| prevalence of shigellosis diarrhoea in a paediatrics population: hospital based survey in bangui, central african republic. | shigellosis is still a major public health problem in sub-saharan countries, especially among children. | 2010 | 21045359 |