Shigella bacteria are increasingly resisting all antibiotics that can easily treat them, a recent report shows.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bacteria that causes bloody diarrhea is becoming antimicrobial-resistant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

The proportion of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella isolates in the United States increased from 2011-2015 to 2023, according to research published in t ...

A serious and increasingly untreatable diarrheal illness is spreading across the United States, marking a major shift in how ...

Here's what to know about the treatment-resistant strain of Shigella that the CDC is warning the public about.

Health officials say cases are most common among men who have sex with men, and resistance is high in Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri.

O-specific polysaccharide conjugates of shigellae were safe and immunogenic in young adults, and a Shigella sonnei conjugate conferred protection [1-3]. Shigellosis is primarily a disease of children; ...

Bacteria uses multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria, that causes colitis, disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as ...

Experimental infection of the rabbit eye was used to study factors that affect the virulence of Shigella flexneri. Strains that penetrated rapidly and multiplied in the corneal epithelium caused ...

VirF is an AraC-type transcriptional regulator responsible for activating the transcription of virulence genes required for the intracellular invasion and cell-to-cell spread of Shigella flexneri.

A bacteria that causes bloody diarrhea is becoming antimicrobial-resistant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in early February that some shigella infections are becoming ...