Five percent of Shigella infections are now resistant to standard antibiotics. This could be a predictor of what’s to come with other bacteria. By Dana G. Smith Multiple strains of the diarrhea ...

Over the past few years, the CDC says there are signs the percentage of Shigella bacteria cases that are resistant to a broad swath of antibiotics has begun to climb steeply around the country.

Infections from a strain of drug-resistant shigella bacteria are on the rise in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes as a potentially serious public health concern.

Cases of "extensively drug-resistant" Shigella bacteria are on the rise and pose a "serious public health threat," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned last month. In February of ...

Shigella bacteria can infect humans but not mice ... to very low temperatures so it would hold still while they took pictures of it with an electron microscope. “We collected hundreds of thousands of ...

Shigella is a group of bacteria that causes shigellosis, a type of food poisoning. The infection can cause belly pain, fever, and watery or bloody diarrhea. You may feel a sharp cramp in your ...

Shigella bacteria can infect humans but not mice ... it would hold still while they took pictures of it with an electron microscope. "We collected hundreds of thousands of images to build the ...

CIRCA 2003: Shigella dysenteriae, bacteria which causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis, seen under a microscope. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Dr. Huynh says, “Shigella is a species of bacteria known to cause diarrhea worldwide. The usual route of transmission is fecal-oral, which means someone is eating food that has been contaminated ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning the public about the rise in a severe strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria Shigella. Here’s what you need to know about the ...

There are typically about 450,000 Shigella bacteria infections in the U.S. each year, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that cases caused by the XDR variant are on a ...

Shigella is a bacteria that causes shigellosis, which affects the intestines and causing symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting, cramps and dehydration, the zoo said. "The infection usually spreads ...