ALLMedicine™ Shigellosis Center

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Shigella is a leading cause of moderate-to-severe diarrhea globally and the causative agent of shigellosis and bacillary dysentery. Associated with 80-165 million cases of diarrhea and over 13% of diarrheal deaths, in many regions Shigella exposur...

Jan 25th, 2021 - Most estimates of the combined burden and cost of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have focused on eight common STIs with established national surveillance strategies (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis, geni...

Jan 5th, 2021 - Shigellosis is a major diarrheal disease in low- and middle-income countries. Although the incidence of such diseases in South and Southeast Asia has been associated with climate fluctuations linked to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the ...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Acute diarrhea is a major public health problem particularly in developing countries. Shigellosis is one of the substantial causative agents of microbial dysentery and still has a remarkable prevalence particularly in areas with poor hygienic infr...

Oct 12th, 2020 - Shigella is a leading cause of childhood diarrhea and target for vaccine development. Microbiologic and clinical case definitions are needed for pediatric field vaccine efficacy trials. We compared characteristics of moderate to severe diarrhea (M...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Shigella is a leading cause of moderate-to-severe diarrhea globally and the causative agent of shigellosis and bacillary dysentery. Associated with 80-165 million cases of diarrhea and over 13% of diarrheal deaths, in many regions Shigella exposur...

Jan 25th, 2021 - Most estimates of the combined burden and cost of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have focused on eight common STIs with established national surveillance strategies (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis, geni...

Jan 5th, 2021 - Shigellosis is a major diarrheal disease in low- and middle-income countries. Although the incidence of such diseases in South and Southeast Asia has been associated with climate fluctuations linked to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the ...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Acute diarrhea is a major public health problem particularly in developing countries. Shigellosis is one of the substantial causative agents of microbial dysentery and still has a remarkable prevalence particularly in areas with poor hygienic infr...

Dec 8th, 2020 - Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim injection is a combination of sulfamethoxazole, a sulfonamide antimicrobial, and trimethoprim, a dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor antibacterial, indicated in adults and pediatric patients two months of age and ol...

Aug 6th, 2018 - General supportive care of patients with shigellosis includes: Infection with Shigella is normally self-limited. The average duration of gastrointestinal symptoms of untreated shigellosis is 7 days Antibiotic treatment is indicated in some patient...

Apr 2nd, 2015 - Action Points Multidrug-resistant shigellosis, much of it associated with international travel, is spreading in the U.S., the CDC is warning. Note that the investigation is continuing, but so far has not turned up any common source for the infecti...

Apr 2nd, 2015 - The United States is currently experiencing an outbreak of shigellosis caused by a strain of the Shigella sonnei bacteria that is resistant to ciprofloxacin, the most commonly prescribed antimicrobial treatment for shigellosis. In its Morbidity an.

pdnews@elsevier. com As my community battles another large Shigella outbreak, I wanted to point out a few aspects of the infection that are often overlooked.