An novel and extensively drug-resistant strain of Shigella sonnei has emerged and is likely still actively spreading in the U ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Caused by Shigella entamoeba or Entamoeba histolytica infection transmitted through fecal oral-route indirectly through contaminated water and food. Symptoms range from mild to severe depending on ...

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 ...

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

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.