Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003
Dispatch
Shigella dysenteriae Serotype 1, Kolkata, India
Shanta Dutta*
, Dharitri Dutta*, Phalguni Dutta*, Shigeru Matsushita†, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, and Shin-ichi Yoshida‡
, Dharitri Dutta*, Phalguni Dutta*, Shigeru Matsushita†, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, and Shin-ichi Yoshida‡
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 Memorial Children’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 Diseases Hospital | ||||||
| 2002 July–Aug | 77 | 27 (35) | 24 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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