[Shigellosis in Tananarive (Madagascar) I - Epidemiologic and clinic features (author's transl)]. / Les shigelloses à Tananarive (Madagascar). I. - Aspects epidémiologiques et cliniques.

Reviewing 67 cases of human adult shigellosis observed in Madagascar, the authors emphasize some epidemiologic and clinic features : high frequency during rainy season, usual dysenteriform aspect or diarrhoeas with fever, hemorragic forms, severity according to anterior state of colon and rectum, severity if cases associated with amoebiasis or schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni).