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Also Known As	bacillary dysentery

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notifiable disease Shigella sonnei Shigella dysenteriae type 1 fecal-oral route Shigella flexneri shigella foodborne illness dysentery food poisoning bacterial disease cholera leprosy tuberculosis plague syphilis anthrax scarlet fever diphtheria gonorrhea whooping cough

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