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Shigellosis

open access: diamondNursing, 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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Population Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Prediction for Tebipenem Pivoxil Treatment of Pediatric Shigellosis. [PDF]

open access: goldClin Transl Sci
ABSTRACT Increasing antimicrobial resistance poses a serious challenge for the treatment of Shigella infections, and there is an urgent need for alternative antibacterial treatments. We conducted a clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of oral tebipenem pivoxil, compared to intravenous ceftriaxone, in Bangladeshi children with shigellosis.
Zhang CX   +12 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Shigellosis [PDF]

open access: yesLancet
Shigella 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.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Severe complicated shigellosis case developed by young pregnant woman [PDF]

open access: diamondУчёные записки Санкт-Петербургского государственного медицинского университета им. Акад. И.П. Павлова, 2021
No doubts that shigellosis severity directly depends on the spread of the gut specific lesion. There are some data published on the basis of autopsy records and pointing to shigella caused lesion spreading both to colon and ileum in adult cases ...
E. A. Kozhukhova   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Antimicrobial resistance in shigellosis: A surveillance study among urban and rural children over 20 years in Bangladesh

open access: yesPLoS 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   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

The changing epidemiology of shigellosis in Australia, 2001–2019

open access: yesPLoS 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.
Kathryn Glass   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

An 11-year study of shigellosis and Shigella species in Taiyuan, China: Active surveillance, epidemic characteristics, and molecular serotyping

open access: yesJournal 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Estimating the burden of shigellosis in Thailand: 36-month population-based surveillance study [PDF]

open access: greenBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005
OBJECTIVE: To estimate incidence of shigellosis in the Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi Province, Thailand. METHODS: Population-based surveillance of shigellosis based in treatment centres.
Pornthip Chompook   +14 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Dynamics of the gut microbiome in subjects challenged with Shigella sonnei 53G in a controlled human infection model [PDF]

open access: yesmSphere
Shigella is a significant cause of diarrhea, predominantly affecting children in low- and middle-income countries, as well as international travelers.
Zachary Liechty   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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