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Volume 10, Number 6—June 2004

Dispatch

Multistate Shigellosis Outbreak and Commercially Prepared Food

Akiko C. Kimura*Comments to Author , Kammy Johnson†, Mary S. Palumbo‡, Jacqueline Hopkins§, Janice C. Boase¶, Roshan Reporter#, Marcia Goldoft**, Karen R. Stefonek††, Jeff A. Farrar‡, Thomas J. Van Gilder†, and Duc J. Vugia‡‡
Author affiliations: *California Department of Health Services, Gardena, California, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA; §San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego, California, USA; ¶Public Health-Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington; USA; #Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, California, USA; **Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, Washington, USA; ††Department of Human Services, Portland, Oregon, USA; ‡‡California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, USA

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Culture-confirmed Shigella sonnei cases associated with five-layered bean dip, by patients’ state of residence, January 2000

            State No. of cases
            Alaska 1
            Arizona 1
            California 217
            Idaho 13
            Illinois 2
            Minnesota 1
            Oregon 31
            New Mexico 2
            Nevada 6
            Washington
 132
            Total 406

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