Talk:Shigellosis

Introduction
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)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 05:59, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Lancet
10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33296-8 JFW &#124; T@lk  20:48, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

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)

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.
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC124020/
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8708331
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC202139/

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)