The analysis of 10 fatal outcomes in patients with acute shigellosis during the period of 1999-2000 made it possible to find out that most of deceased shigellosis patients belonged to the group inclined to alcohol abuse and having initial alimentary disturbances. In 6 cases of acute shigellosis with fatal outcome the causative agent was S. flexneri 2a, in 2 cases--S. flexneri 3a, in 1--S. flexneri 4b. The main cause of fatal outcomes was accompanying double pneumonia. Lesions of the intestinal tract in deceased shigellosis patients were of destructive character, resulting, in a number of cases, in serous and perforative peritonitis.

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