title: Shigellosis in child day care centers--Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky, 1991.
abstract: In January 1991, the Lexington-Fayette County (Kentucky) Health Department (LFCHD) received three reports of Shigella sonnei infections from the University of Kentucky microbiology laboratory. The infections occurred in children aged 2-3 years, each of whom attended a different child day care center in Lexington-Fayette County (population: 200,000). This report summarizes the findings of an investigation by the LFCHD and the Kentucky Department for Health Services to assess the impact of day care center attendance on communitywide shigellosis.
mesh_terms: D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky / Q000453:epidemiology; D012764:Shigella sonnei