Initially diagnosed with gonorrhoea, further tests revealed a coinfection with Shigella. The patient was admitted to the emergency department in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with diarrhoea ...

Illustration by Stephanie Rossow via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Lane County health officials are warning of an increase in an uncommon infectious bacteria. The county in Oregon has ...

eggs and poultry litter and results compared with conventional culture isolation and identification procedure. The multiplex PCR identified the presence of Salmonella and Shigella strains with a short ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County is seeing a large spike in winter season Shigella infections for the second year in a row, with more cases recorded in January than in any prior month since ...

The rise in Shigella cases over recent years is concerning and is a result of multiple pathways of transmission. Investments made in public health are critical for monitoring and slowing the spread of ...

Shigella/enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC), among other bacteria, parasites and viruses). However, its impact on the management of children with infectious diarrhoea remains unknown.

Patients with suspected shigellosis should have a stool specimen collected for culture. Routine stool culture includes testing for Shigella. Stool culture testing for community health care providers ...

A Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay to be used as an alternative to the conventional culture method in detecting Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) virulence genes ipaH ...

A longhorn Steakhouse associated with a Shigella outbreak has been cleared to reopen after having closed on Oct. 2. The investigation into the restaurant in Fairview Heights, IL, continues ...

The number of confirmed Shigella infections from lab testing is now 20, and the number of "probable cases" is 22. Health officials said in an attempt to narrow down what food or foods are ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — More than 30 people have contacted a food poisoning lawyer seeking representation for cases linked to a LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights, the Lange Law Firm told ...

Public health officials are investigating an outbreak of Shigella infections traced to a restaurant in Illinois. The LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights, IL, has been closed in relation to the ...