| [toxic food infection caused by shigella flexneri in a military unit]. | food borne disease outbreaks have increased in france, but outbreaks caused by shigella are rare, accounting for only 73 cases (1.62%) in 1993. we report a food borne outbreak of shigella flexneri strain 3 infection in a fire fighting unit in paris between july 13th and 17th 1995. forty of the 127 firemen suffered symptoms including acute diarrhea (80%), fever (50%) and blood and mucus in stools (1 case, 2.5%). epidemiological investigation generated an unimodal epidemic curve suggesting a singl ... | 1997 | 9480034 |