1 Department of Pediatrics, Kern County General Hospital, Bakersfield, California 93305
A child with diarrhea who does not have parenteral disease and whose peripheral blood smear shows more band neutrophils than segmented ones (regardless of the number of total neutrophils), should be strongly suspected of having shigellosis.
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