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Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003
Dispatch

Shigella dysenteriae Serotype 1, Kolkata, India

Shanta Dutta*Comments to Author , Dharitri Dutta*, Phalguni Dutta*, Shigeru Matsushita†, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, and Shin-ichi Yoshida‡
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India; †Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan; ‡Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Table 1

Isolation frequency of Shigella serotypes from patients admitted to two different hospitals, Kolkata, India

Place, y, and period of sample collection No. samples tested
(n) Strains
Shigella isolated n (%) S. dysenteriae
(n) S. flexneri
(n) S. boydii
(n) S. sonnei
(n)
B.C. Roy MemorialChildren’s Hospital
2001
Jan–April
May–Aug
Sept–Dec
2002
Jan–April
May–Aug 1,069
442
397
230
790
365
425 80 (7.5)
26 (5.9)
39 (9.8)
15 (6.5)
72 (9.1)
32 (8.7)
40 (9.4) 5
1
4
0
5
1
4 40
13
17
10
45
26
19 9
3
5
1
4
1
3 26
9
13
4
18
4
14
Infectious DiseasesHospital
2002
July–Aug 77 27 (35) 24 2 0 1

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