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Also Known As	bacillary dysentery

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

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