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Describe the features of bacterial dysentery.?
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Diarrhea: Bacterial dysentery is serious and can be life threatening. It would present with persistent diarrhea, sometimes bloody. It is almost always responsive to appropriate antibiotics.
Answered 12/28/2013
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