Emerg Infect Dis

eid

Emerging Infectious Diseases

1080-60401080-6059

Centers for Disease Control

10603219

2640795

Research Article

HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis.

Baer

J. T.

Vugia

D. J.

Reingold

A. L.

Aragon

Angulo

F. J.

Bradford

W. Z.

California Emerging Infections Program, San Francisco, California, USA

Nov-Dec1999

56820823

We investigated cases of shigellosis in San Francisco and Alameda Counties identified during 1996 by active laboratory surveillance to assess the role of HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis. Dramatically elevated rates of shigellosis in HIV-infected persons implicate HIV infection as an important risk factor for shigellosis in San Francisco.