Imported shigellosis: aerogenic Shigella boydii 74 (Sachs A 12) in a traveller followed by two cases of laboratory-associated infections.
During their holiday in Tunesia two members of a family developed severe dysentery which prompted hospitalization of one of them after their return to Germany. Shigella boydii 4 was isolated from a stool culture. From another, healthy family member an aerogenic, mannitol negative strain of S. boydii 14 (formerly Sachs A 12) was isolated which subsequently infected a laboratory technician when she was handling the fecal specimen. A second laboratory infection due to this organism occurred while performing the Serény test of pathogenicity. Both persons developed a severe dysenteric syndrome. The increasing problem of imported shigellosis in the Federal Republic of Germany and the particularity of gas-production in Shigella strains are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000209:etiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007757:Laboratory Infection / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D012760:Shigella / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012761:Shigella boydii / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014195:Travel; D014416:Tunisia