Federal health officials have alerted the U.S. public that a drug-resistant strain of infectious Shigella bacteria is posing a threat to public health. In an April 9 report from the U.S. Centers for ...

Cases of an “extensively drug-resistant” infection known as shigella are rising in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which called the increase a “public health ...

Shigella, the bacterium responsible for some of the most severe forms of childhood dysentery, is quietly rewriting the ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as reported ...

Shigella bacteria cause an infection of the bowel known as shigellosis, which results in diarrhoea. There are four main species: Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella ...

Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at Uppsala University have successfully mapped how aggressive Shigella bacteria infect the human gut. The study opens the door to using cultured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late August, the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens announced that one its gorillas, Bulera, had died from shigella, a highly ...

Public health officials are investigating an outbreak of Shigella infections traced to a restaurant in Illinois. The LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights, IL, has been closed in relation to the ...

Shigellosis is highly contagious and is transmitted through direct contact with an infected person, the faecal-oral route, or through contaminated food, water or surfaces. [iStockphoto] A three-day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal health officials have alerted the U.S. public that a drug-resistant strain of infectious Shigella bacteria is posing a ...

Bacteria uses multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria, that causes colitis, disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as ...