HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis

Emerg Infect Dis. 1999 Nov-Dec;5(6):820-3. doi: 10.3201/eid0506.990614.

Abstract

We investigated cases of shigellosis in San Francisco and Alameda Counties identified during 1996 by active laboratory surveillance to assess the role of HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis. Dramatically elevated rates of shigellosis in HIV-infected persons implicate HIV infection as an important risk factor for shigellosis in San Francisco.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / diagnosis
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / epidemiology*
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / etiology*
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • Homosexuality, Male
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Population Surveillance / methods
  • Risk Factors
  • San Francisco / epidemiology
  • Shigella flexneri / isolation & purification*
  • Shigella sonnei / isolation & purification*
  • Travel