title: Shigellosis complicated by acute appendicitis.
abstract: Acute appendicitis developed in a 23-year-old Mexican-American man with acute bacillary dysentery (shigellosis). This is the first such case reported in the English literature.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012764:Shigella sonnei / Q000302:isolation & purification