During the surveillance study a total of 112 Shigella were isolated (74 S. sonnei, 30 S. flexneri, seven S. boydii and one S. dysenteriae); the 74 S. sonnei were selected for WGS. The majority (64/74) of the selected S. sonnei were isolated from symptomatic diarrhoeal stool samples with the remaining strains isolated from asymptomatic infections.