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Wash hands with liquid soap and water, and rub for at least 20 seconds.

Perform hand hygiene frequently, especially before handling food or eating, and after using the toilet or handling faecal matter.

Treatment includes fluid replacement and antibiotics. They should observe personal hygiene to avoid infecting other persons. Infected persons in schools or institutions should be isolated. The incubation period is usually 1 - 3 days, but can be up to 7 days. Therefore, the disease is highly contagious and many outbreaks are related to childcare settings and schools. Infection may occur after consuming a small number of the bacteria. People who have weakened immune systems may develop a more serious illness.īacillary dysentery is transmitted directly by physical contact with the faecal material of a patient or carrier (including during sexual contact), or indirectly through consumption of contaminated food and water.

Young children, travellers to developing countries and men who have sex with men are more likely to acquire bacillary dysentery. Complications include toxic dilatation of the large intestine and acute kidney disease. For patients who develop bacillary dysentery, they commonly present with acute onset of fever, diarrhoea with abdominal cramps and nausea or vomiting. Infection by Shigella may be asymptomatic or only cause mild illness. Bacillary dysentery is an intestinal infection caused by a group of Shigella bacteria which can be found in the human gut.