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Also Known As	bacillary dysentery

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

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