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Abstract
According to the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, in Georgia in 2016-2018, 56.1% of patients aged 0-15 years who were hospitalized, due to infectious disease had an intestinal infection. This rate was 64.1% under one year of age.
Bacteriological study of circulating Shigella strain in Georgia was performed, as well as was conducted a retrospective study, and was reviewed the medical case of 732 patients hospitalized for intestinal infection at Academician V. Bochorishvili Clinic in 2017-2018. The main reason for the hospitalization of the patients was bloody diarrhea. In 2018, more cases of Shigella were caused by Shigella sonnei (11%), which was significantly different from previous years, when Shigella strains were predominantly Shigella flexneri. Most cases were in the age group of 1 to 4 years. The incidence rate gradually decreased with age. The clinical picture of the disease caused by Shigella sonnei was, in the beginning, often similar to the clinic for nutritional toxicosis, and then similar to the clinic of dysentery.