Infantile and Childhood Shigellosis in Dae Jon area

ABSTRACT

Clinical and bacteriological studies were made on 37 cases of infantile and childhood shigellosis treated at pediatric department of St. Mary's hospital in Dae Jon from Jan. 1978 to Dec. 1978. The following results were obtained. 1. In sex distribution 21 were male and rest of them were female, and the M/F ratio was 1.8:1.0. 2. The peak age incidence showed the children of 1 to 6 years old. 3. The most frequent symptom was fever(76%) and abdominal pain was next. 4. S. flexneri was most frequentkly isolated (62.2%) and the next was S. sonnei(35.1%). 5. The result of sensitivity test in this study revealed that tobramycin was most commonly effective (92%) and cephaloridin was next. Ampicillin was less sensitive (22%) than the previous reports.