[Seeding efficiency of the causative agent of dysentery as an index of the intensity of the epidemiologic process].

A study was made of the character and extent of interrelationship between the indices of dysentery morbidity and the indices of the seeding efficiency of dysentery bacilli persons who did not apply for medical aid. Establishment of such interrelationship permitted the authors to suggest the use of a more objective index of the seeding efficiency of dysentery bacilli, along with morbidity indices, for the assessment of the intensity of the epidemic process in this infection. On the basis of investigations carried out the authors came to the conclusion that a tendency to the increase of dysentery incidence the last few years chiefly bore a "statistical" character and was due to the improved detection of patients and carriers.