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Article: Five-day ciprofloxacin regimen effective against dysentery outbreak in Sierra Leone.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- October 14, 2003
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2003 OCT 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A five-day ciprofloxacin regimen was effective for controlling a dysentery outbreak in Sierra Leone.
According to published research from France, "In November 1999, a Medecins Sans Frontieres team based in the southeastern part of Sierra Leone reported an increased number of cases of bloody diarrhea."
"Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 (Sd1) was isolated in the early cases," according to P.J. Guerin and coauthors at Epicentre in Paris.
"A total of 4,218 cases of dysentery were reported in Kenema district from December, 1999, to March, 2000," they noted. "The overall attack rate was 7.5%."
"The ...