Shigellosis linked to sex venues, Australia.
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From January 1 to July 31, 2000, 148 cases of Shigella infection were reported in New South Wales, Australia, compared with an annual average of 95 cases. Of reported cases, 83% were confirmed as Shigella sonnei biotype G infections; 80% were in homosexual men. Visiting a sex venue in the 2 weeks before onset of illness was the only factor significantly associated with shigellosis.
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Sporadic outbreaks of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri have been reported among MSM.
“Sporadic outbreaks of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri have been reported among MSM (257–262).”
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The Abstract and The Study report a Shigella sonnei outbreak among homosexual men in New South Wales, and the Abstract notes other clusters among men who have sex with men. The paper does not report a Shigella flexneri outbreak among MSM; its only mention of a flexneri outbreak is a reference that does not identify MSM as the affected group. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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- Authors
- O'Sullivan, B., Delpech, V., Pontivivo, G., Karagiannis, T., Marriott, D., Harkness, J., & McAnulty, J. M.
- Affiliations
- New South Wales Department of Health (AU)
- New South Wales Health Department, New South Wales, Australia
- St Vincent's Hospital Sydney (AU)
- ORCID
- O'Sullivan, Belinda
- Venue
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 862-864
- ISSN
- 1080-6040 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-6059
- PMC
- PMC2732516
- OpenAlex
- W2055162253
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Emerging infectious diseases (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- University of Sydney
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Endocrinology › Escherichia coli research studies
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology › Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
- Keywords
- shigellosis, gay men, sexually transmitted infections, outbreak investigation, New South Wales
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Disease Outbreaks, Dysentery, Bacillary, Environmental Microbiology, Humans, Hygiene, Male, Middle Aged, New South Wales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sexual Behavior, Shigella sonnei, Time Factors, Homosexuality, Male
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