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LancetShigella is a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular, gastric acid-resistant bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, which includes four serogroups: Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri, and Shigella boydii. Globally, shigellosis is the most common cause of invasive bloody diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years. Humans are
Samandari T, Okafor CN.
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Antimicrobial resistance against shigellosis is increasingly alarming. However, evidence-based knowledge gaps regarding the changing trends of shigellosis in Bangladesh exist due to the scarcity of longitudinal data on antimicrobial resistance. Our study
Sharika Nuzhat, Rina Das, Parag Palit
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Diarrheal disease risk in rural Bangladesh decreases as tubewell density increases: a zero-inflated and geographically weighted analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2011 Background This study investigates the impact of tubewell user density on cholera and shigellosis events in Matlab, Bangladesh between 2002 and 2004.
Yunus Mohammad +7 more
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The changing epidemiology of shigellosis in Australia, 2001–2019
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Shigellosis is an increasing cause of gastroenteritis in Australia, with prolonged outbreaks reported in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter "First Nations") communities and among men who have sex with men (MSM) in major cities.
Benjamin G Polkinghorne +2 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017 A hospital-based surveillance of shigellosis was conducted in Taiyuan from 2005 to 2015. A total of 2655 stool cultures were collected from patients with diarrhea, 115 were identified as S. flexneri and 107 were S. sonnei.
Lifeng Zhao, Yanwen Xiong
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Dynamics of the gut microbiome in subjects challenged with Shigella sonnei 53G in a controlled human infection model [PDF]
mSphereShigella is a significant cause of diarrhea, predominantly affecting children in low- and middle-income countries, as well as international travelers.
Zachary Liechty +6 more
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Nursing, 2016 Shigellosis is one of the major causes of diarrhoea in India. The accurate estimates of morbidity and mortality due to shigellosis are lacking, though it is endemic in the country and has been reported to cause many outbreaks. The limited information available indicates Shigella to be an important food-borne pathogen in India.
Taneja, Neelam, Mewara, Abhishek
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BMC Primary Care, 2023 Background Shigellosis is an acute diarrheal disease transmitted through contaminated food, water, objects, poor hand hygiene, or sexual activity. Healthcare providers (HCP) may not be aware of the multiple routes of Shigella transmission, populations at
Julia C. Haston +6 more
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NAIP–NLRC4-deficient mice are susceptible to shigellosis
eLife, 2020 Bacteria of the genus Shigella cause shigellosis, a severe gastrointestinal disease that is a major cause of diarrhea-associated mortality in humans. Mice are highly resistant to Shigella and the lack of a tractable physiological model of shigellosis has
Patrick S Mitchell +8 more
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Shigella storm and men who have sex with men: A perspective on the Indian context
Indian Journal of Public Health, 2023 Shigellosis is one of the driving factors for extrahepatic manifestations of sexually transmitted Hepatitis-C infection, which was previously thought to affect only men who have sex with men (MSM) who were human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive ...
Dhruva Nandi +2 more
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