Shigella spreads "easily" through direct and surface contact with an infected person's faeces, the CDC says. It can lead to a form of dysentery named shigellosis, which is considered one of the ...

Shigellosis, a form of bacterial dysentery caused by Shigella bacteria, is the second leading cause of fatal diarrhoeal disease worldwide, but at the moment there is no approved shot for the ...

The researchers studied the infection process of the bacterial cause of dysentery, Shigella flexneri. They not only clarified a critical new aspect of the underlying regulatory process but also ...

Dysentery is no joke, with debilitating diarrhea as its hallmark symptom. Every year, over 165 million cases of dysentery and ...

A recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases has uncovered an increase in severe multidrug-resistant (MDR) ...

CIRCA 2003: Shigella dysenteriae, bacteria which causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis, seen under a microscope. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Methods: Seventy-three children aged 6 to 60 months with severe bloody dysentery caused by Shigella infection were either given a rice-based diet (54 kcal/dL), with cooked GB (250 g/L ...

The Japanese work began after World War II in response to increased cases of bacillary dysentery ... cause was infection by bacteria of the Shigella genus. The preferred treatment first was ...

The contagious bacterial infection, also known as Shigella, usually involves symptoms that include diarrhea, fever and stomach pains, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Shigella flexneri is the leading cause of endemic diarrhea and dysentery in some countries with low-to-middle incomes. There is still a lack of a licensed vaccine against this pathogen.