BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Recently, attention has focused on the impact of global climate change on infectious diseases. Storm flooding is an extreme weather phenomenon that not only impacts the health of the environment but also worsens the spread of pathogens.
Piao-yi Luo +10 more
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Identifying high-risk areas of bacillary dysentery and associated meteorological factors in Wuhan, China [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2013 Zhenjun Li, Hualiang Lin
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Epidemiology of Shigella-Associated diarrhea in Gorgan, north of Iran [PDF]
, 2007 Objective : Shigella is an important etiological agent for diarrhea and especially dysentery. Shigellosis is an intestinal infection that is a major public health problem in many developing countries.
Ahmadi, A.R. +7 more
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Interventions to Control Virus Transmission During an Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Experience from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. [PDF]
, 1999 On 6 May 1995, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) coordinator in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), received a request for assistance for what was believed to be a concurrent outbreak of bacillary dysentery and viral hemorrhagic fever ...
Kerstiëns, B, Matthys, F
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Shigella sonnei genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis indicate recent global dissemination from Europe [PDF]
, 2012 Shigella are human-adapted Escherichia coli that have gained the ability to invade the human gut mucosa and cause dysentery1,2, spreading efficiently via low-dose fecal-oral transmission3,4. Historically, S.
A Mutreja +55 more
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Identification of critical residues of the serotype modifying O-acetyltransferase of Shigella flexneri [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND Thirteen serotypes of Shigella flexneri (S. flexneri) have been recognised, all of which are capable of causing bacillary dysentery or shigellosis. With the emergence of the newer S.
Thanweer, Farzaana, Verma, Naresh K
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HLA-B27 Positivity: associated health implications [PDF]
, 2011 HLA-B27 positivity makes the onset of autoimmune diseases such as uveitis, ankylosing spondylitis and Crohn's disease more likely to occur. Ankylosing spondylitis and Crohn's disease are two types of HLA-B27 positive diseases that demonstrate a direct ...
Cox, C. L. +4 more
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mSphere, 2020 Shigella flexneri is a major cause of bacillary dysentery in Beijing, China. The genetic features and population structure of locally circulating clones remained unclear. In this study, we sequenced the genomes of 93 S. flexneri isolates from patients in
Lang Yang +8 more
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Shigella Draft Genome Sequences: Resources for Food Safety and Public Health. [PDF]
, 2017 Shigella is a major foodborne pathogen that infects humans and nonhuman primates and is the major cause of dysentery and reactive arthritis worldwide. This is the initial public release of 16 Shigella genome sequences from four species sequenced as part ...
Chen, Poyin +5 more
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Efficacy and potential of phage therapy against multidrug resistant Shigella spp. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Shigella-infected bacillary dysentery or commonly known as Shigellosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The gradual emergence of multidrug resistant Shigella spp.
Swee-Seong Tang +4 more
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