[Dysentery and amoebiasis in Poland in 2007].

The number as well as incidence rate of notified as shigellosis, bacillary dysentery cases in XXI century are low. Only 64 cases were notified in the year 2007 (incidence rate 0.17/100,000 population), while 35 (incidence rate 0.09) were notified in 2006 and median in the 2001-2005 years was 80, incidence rate 0.21/100,000 population. Since 2000 no one-death case was notified. Seven imported cases were notified as they got infection being abroad, in Egypt 6: 4 cases got S. flexneri, two S. sonnei. In patients and all infected in Poland only S. sonnei strains were isolated. No case of S. boydii or S. dysenteriae infection was found. In the period of low frequency of Shigella infections, the external quality assessment control of the quality of bacteriological media, laboratory and prae-laboratory procedures for detection of different Shigella groups and types should be executed. A number of amoebic dysentery cases were registered n 2007: 19 cases, incidence rate 0.050/100,000 population, but in 2006 more--21 cases incidence rate 0.055/100,000. The cases were registered in 6 out of 16 administrative regions (voivodeships); infection was probably imported from underdeveloped countries. It looks like a new emerging problem.