title: [Current characteristics of dysentery in St.Petersburg].
abstract: The course of Flexner dysentery has been analysed in 110 fatal cases. They died in St. Petersburg in 1994. Fatal outcomes occurred more frequently in the elderly and unsuccessful subjects. Hospitalization in many cases was late. Dysentery ran often in the presence of concomitant disorders (cardiovascular, alcoholic, alimentary) and was complicated with shock, pneumonia, peritonitis. At autopsy, there were severe catarrhal, fibrinolytic, flegmonous, hemorrhagic, ulcerative and necrotic lesions of both large and small intestine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases of Adults and Epidemiology, Pediatric Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg.
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Zhurkin
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Makarova
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Stavitskaia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004403:Dysentery / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015996:Survival Rate