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. 1981 Oct 1;125(7):733–736.

Epidémie de dysentérie bacillaire.

Epidemic of bacillary dysentery

P Auger, B Pouliot, M De Grâce, C Milot, M Lafortune, Z Bergeron
PMCID: PMC1862438  PMID: 7034919

Abstract

An outbreak of bacillary dysentery in 1978 affecting 928 persons, most of whom were living in the village of St-Jacques, PQ, is described. An epidemiologic study suggested the water supply as the source of the infection, and it was established that the water carried by the municipal aqueduct was contaminated by feces containing the causal agent, Shigella sonnei. This epidemic, the largest mentioned in he Canadian medical literature, demonstrates how contagious this infection is.

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