Stool cultures revealed that all three were infected with Shigella sonnei, a strain of Shigella bacteria that is resistant to five of the antibiotic classes most commonly prescribed for such ...

An 'alarming' drug-resistant superbug is spreading across major US cities, doctors warn. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles identified three cases of shigella in the city ...

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 ...

More than half of the cases are among people experiencing homelessness. Shigellosis, caused by the Shigella bacterium, causes diarrhea, fever and stomach pain. It spreads through contact with an ...

Several cholera vaccine formulations, as well as a live vaccine for Shigella flexneri, have shown less immunogenicity depending on the population under study. Levine presented data showing that ...