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HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis
J T Baer1, D J Vugia, A L Reingold
1California Emerging Infections Program, San Francisco, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
We investigated cases of shigellosis in San Francisco and Alameda Counties identified during 1996 by active laboratory surveillance to assess the role of HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis. Dramatically elevated rates of shigellosis in HIV-infected persons implicate HIV infection as an important risk factor for shigellosis in San Francisco.