Several parts of India, including Kolkata, witnessed a devastating epidemic of shigellosis with increased (35.6%) isolation of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains during 1984 ([10][1]). In the postepidemic period, shigellosis became endemic in Kolkata and S. flexneri (58%) was the most prevalent
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