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Shigellosis in refugees, Austria, July to November 2015
Ingeborg Lederer1, Karin Taus, Franz Allerberger
1Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
We report on a cluster of shigellosis including 21 cases in refugees and two in local residents who worked in refugee transit centres, detected in Austria in 2015, between calendar weeks 29 and 47. The species isolated from the cluster cases, including one mixed infection, were S. sonnei (n = 13), S. flexneri (n = 10) and S. boydii (n = 1). Eleven of 18 tested isolates were extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-positive, including five of six ciprofloxacin-resistant and three azithromycin-resistant isolates.
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