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Shigella species are important pathogens responsible for diarrhoeal diseases and dysentery occurring all over the world.
Similar problems concerning monovalent or polyvalent sera had also arisen for dysentery sera.
Medical costs for dysentery patients are much lower.
Many diseases have broken out in these camps such as : dysentery, typhoid, tuberculosis, scabies, scurvy, beri-beri and others.
On average a dysentery patient will see a doctor twice and recover.
Dysentery refers to diarrhoea with blood and mucus and implies severe colonic infection.
Although children <5 years of age make up only 8 % of the total population, they accounted for 43 % of bacillary dysentery cases.
Deaths were usually attributed to malaria, debility, anaemia, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery.
