The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella infections (shigellosis). There has been a concerning increase in ...

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 ...

In this study, we used plasmid profile analysis, XbaI macrorestriction with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and PCR of the ipaH gene, to study the molecular characteristics of 183 Shigella ...

There are many germs that can cause stomach illnesses, but one particular bacteria type has health experts concerned because it is highly contagious and one of its variants has proven to be resistant ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A renewed warning is coming from Multnomah County about an outbreak of a contagious infection spreading through the Portland-metro area. Shigella is an intestinal infection that can ...

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 stomach ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A surge in stomach flu cases has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a warning - with a drug-resistant strain of one bacterial infection becoming more common.

Drug-resistant shigella strains made up 5% of infections in 2022, up from 0% in 2015, the CDC said. Shigella infections can cause bloody diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever. Most people who get ...

Health experts in the UK have warned of a rise in antibiotic-resistant Shigella. The gut infection is passed on through any sort of fecal-oral contact (i.e. getting a tiny bit of infected poo into ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The Shigella outbreak linked to a South Bay seafood restaurant has now grown to 110 suspected cases and has spread to a total of four Bay Area counties. Mariscos San Juan, a ...

Shigella, a bacterial pathogen that causes dysentery and is the leading cause of childhood diarrheal diseases, inserts a pore called a translocon into an infected person's intestinal cells and then ...