Fulminating, Rapidly Fatal Shigellosis in Children

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Abstract
THE varying degrees of severity with which shigellosis runs its course in individual cases, in family outbreaks and in local epidemics has been discussed in the extensive literature on the subject.This paper emphasizes the occurrence in children of a fulminating form of the illness, leading rapidly to death. The occurrence of more than 1 fatal case in a family within a short period is used as an argument for more vigorous preventive measures in members of the family of a patient with shigellosis.Scattered references in the literature have stressed the fulminating course of shigellosis in children. Evans1 reported . . .