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Volume 21, Number 7—July 2015
Dispatch

Outbreak of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Shigella sonnei Associated with Travel to Vietnam, Republic of Korea

Jin Seok Kim, Jae Joon Kim, Soo Jin Kim, Se-Eun Jeon, Ki Yeon Seo, Jun-Kil Choi, Nan-Ok Kim, Sahyun Hong, Gyung Tae Chung, Cheon-Kwon Yoo, Young-Taek Kim, Hyeng Il Cheun, Geun-Ryang Bae, Yeong-Hee Yeo, Gang-Ja Ha, Mi-Suk Choi, Shin-Jung Kang, and Junyoung KimComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea (J.S. Kim, S.J. Kim, S.E. Jeon, N.-O. Kim, S. Hong, G.T. Chung, C.-K. Yoo, S.-J. Kang, J. Kim); Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Government, Changwon-si (J.J. Kim); Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju-si (K.Y. Seo, J.-K. Choi, Y.T. Kim, H.I. Cheun, G.-R. Bae); Gyeongsangnam-do Public Health and Environmental Research Institute, Changwon-si (Y.-H. Yeo, G.-J. Ha); Changnyeong Preservation of Health, Changnyeong-gun, South Korea (M.-S. Choi)

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Figure 1

Epidemic curve of the outbreak of illness caused by Shigella sonnei infection, by symptom onset date, South Korea, 2014. Black bar sections indicate laboratory-confirmed cases; white bar sections indicate probable cases; stars indicate cases found in daycare center. Arrows indicate dates of the events for an index case-patient with travel history to Vietnam and of public health notification of the outbreak.

Figure 1. Epidemic curve of the outbreak of illness caused by Shigella sonnei infection, by symptom onset date, South Korea, 2014. Black bar sections indicate laboratory-confirmed cases; white bar sections indicate probable cases; stars indicate cases found in daycare center. Arrows indicate dates of the events for an index case-patient with travel history to Vietnam and of public health notification of the outbreak.

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