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Volume 5, Number 6—December 1999
Dispatch

HIV Infection as a Risk Factor for Shigellosis1

Jefferson T. Baer*, Duc J. Vugia*†‡, Arthur L. Reingold*§, Tomas Aragon¶, Frederick J. Angulo#, and Williamson Z. Bradford*§**Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *California Emerging Infections Program, San Francisco, California, USA; †California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, USA; ‡University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; §School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; ¶San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA; #Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and **IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Mountain View, California, USA

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Table 1

Persons with shigellosis, by county of residence, 1996

Characteristic San Francisco (n = 228) Alameda (n = 140) p value
Male 157/228 (69%) 60/140 (43%) <0.001
Age >18 181/227 (80%) 57/140 (41%) <0.001
Race

White 117/200 (59%) 15/92 (16%) <0.001

Black 39/200 (20%) 44/92 (48%) <0.001

Hispanic 37/200 (19%) 22/92 (24%) 0.285
Hospitalized 22/201 (11%) 12/140 (9%) 0.472
HIV infection 66/168 (39%) 9/125 (7%) <0.001
Foreign travel 25/185 (14%) NAa
Gay male 96/190 (51%) NAa
Recent sex 70/136 (51%) NAa

aNA = not available

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1Presented in part at the International Conference on Emerging Infections, March 1998, Atlanta, Georgia.

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