Talk:Shigellosis

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Perhaps I'm misreading, or there's a deeper explanation, but if 165 million people are affected, then either more than 1 million die, or the mortality rate isn't 10-15%. Or does it cause ten cases of dysentery per person? Either way, the sentence needs to be changed somehow.JustinBlank (talk) 06:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This article says:

"Ten to fifteen (10-15)% of people affected will die. In the developing world, Shigella causes approximately 165 million cases of severe dysentery and more than 1 million deaths each year,"

1 million deaths out of 165 million cases = 0.6%

Quite different to 10-15%

Last edited at 07:26, 6 October 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 05:59, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Lancet

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33296-8 JFW | T@lk 20:48, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Better source needed for complications

In multiple places the article lists serious complications (arthritis, sepsis, seizures, and hemolytic uremic syndrome), but no cited source supports this.

One location cites a CDC article, but the current version of the article does not mention complications. (The 2016 version of the article originally cited did.) The other location does not cite a source.

For such an important fact, a current source should be cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:1B00:5390:51CE:2817:9ACB:8787 (talk) 16:32, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for secondary sources on environmental transmission of Shigella

I want to include a sentence in the Transmission subsection, something like:

Shigella can also exist in natural water sources, without prior contamination with fecal matter.

Found some primary sources that suggest it, but no secondary sources.

Also, found this secondary source on Acanthamoeba as an environmental host for Shigella. This may relate to what I am trying to say above, although I was going more for "exist free-standing in natural water sources" as opposed to inside an amoeba.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4466244/

Ylok (talk) 19:08, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]