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From: Incidence, clinical implications and impact on public health of infections with Shigella spp. and entero-invasive Escherichia coli (EIEC): results of a multicenter cross-sectional study in the Netherlands during 2016–2017

Fig. 2

Flowchart of inclusions in the study. Yellow boxes = data used in this study. White boxes = data not used in this study. Red diamonds = Data of patients from whom these isolates were obtained were used in the comparison of Shigella spp. with EIEC. Blue diamonds = Data of patients from whom an S. sonnei or S. flexneri isolate was obtained or detected in the fecal samples were used in the comparison of culture-positive cases with culture-negative cases. *one S. flexneri and one EIEC isolate were excluded from analysis, because they caused a double-infection

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