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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Expression of bacterial virulence factors and cytokines during in vitro macrophage infection by enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri: a comparative study [PDF]
, 2010 Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) and Shigellaspp cause bacillary dysentery in humans by invading and multiplying within epithelial cells of the colonic mucosa.
ALBUQUERQUE, José AT +5 more
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Lag effect of humidex on bacillary dysentery and its regional heterogeneity in North China
Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022 Objective To study the association of humidex with bacillary dysentery (BD) incidence and its regional heterogeneity in North China. Methods The daily BD incidence and meteorological data from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2016 in North China were
Shu-zi WANG, Zhi-dong LIU, Qi GAO
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Molecules, 2015 The Portulaca oleracea L. (P. oleracea) has been used to treat bacillary dysentery for thousands of years in China. Pharmacology studies on P. oleracea have also showed its significant antibacterial effects on the enteropathogenic bacteria, which might ...
Xia Lei +4 more
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Virulence, 2023 Shigella spp. are the causative agent of shigellosis (or bacillary dysentery), a diarrhoeal disease characterized for the bacterial invasion of gut epithelial cells.
Xosé M. Matanza, Abigail Clements
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Clinical implications of reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones in paediatric Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri infections. [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVES: We aimed to quantify the impact of fluoroquinolone resistance on the clinical outcome of paediatric shigellosis patients treated with fluoroquinolones in southern Vietnam.
Baker, Stephen +17 more
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Epidemiological analysis of respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases in three counties of Sichuan: the baseline survey of Disaster Mitigation Demonstration Area in western China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Natural disasters can indirectly induce epidemics of infectious diseases through air and water pollution, accelerated pathogen reproduction, and population migration.
Zhiqiang Xue +18 more
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Spatiotemporal Frameworks for Infectious Disease Diffusion and Epidemiology [PDF]
, 2016 Emerging infectious diseases, and the resurgence of previously controlled infectious disease (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis), are a major focus for public health concern, as well as providing challenges for establishing aetiology and transmission.
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Organisation of Health Care During an Outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999. [PDF]
, 2004 Organising health care was one of the tasks of the International Scientific and Technical Committee during the 1998-1999 outbreak in Durba/Watsa, in the north-eastern province (Province Orientale), Democratic Republic of Congo.
Borchert, M +10 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014 Introduction The control of bacillary dysentery (BD) remains a big challenge for China. Methods Negative binomial multivariable regression was used to study relationships between meteorological variables and the occurrence of BD during the period of ...
Tiegang Li, Zhicong Yang, Ming Wang
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