J. Clin. Microbiol. 2020 Jan 22
Persistent transmission of shigellosis in England is associated with a recently emerged multi-drug resistant strain of Shigella sonnei.
Bardsley M, Jenkins C, Mitchell HD, Mikhail AFW, Baker KS, Foster K, Hughes G, Dallman TJ
Whole genome sequencing has enhanced surveillance and facilitated detailed monitoring of transmission of Shigella species in England. We undertook an ...
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mBio
An Oral Inoculation Infant Rabbit Model for Shigella Infection.
Kuehl CJ, D'Gama JD, Warr AR, Waldor MK
Shigella species cause diarrheal disease globally. Shigellosis is typically characterized by bloody stools and colitis with mucosal damage and is the ...
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Rev Esp Enferm Dig
A propos of a new case of shigellosis by a non-imported multiresistant strain.
Rosales-Castillo A, Pedrosa-Corral I, Gutiérrez-Fernández J
We present the case corresponding to a shigellosis produced by multiresistant S. flexneri in a patient with no recent history of tourism or travel to ...
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Nat Microbiol
Commensal Escherichia coli are a reservoir for the transfer of XDR plasmids into epidemic fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella sonnei.
Thanh Duy P, Thi Nguyen TN, Vu Thuy D, Chung The H, Alcock F, Boinett C, Dan Thanh HN, Thanh Tuyen H, Thwaites GE, Rabaa MA, Baker S
Despite the sporadic detection of fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella in Asia in the early 2000s and the subsequent global spread of ciprofloxacin-resi ...
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Carbohydr Polym
Designation of chitosan nano-vaccine based on MxiH antigen of Shigella flexneri with increased immunization capacity.
Gilavand F, Marzban A, Ebrahimipour G, Soleimani N, Goudarzi M
Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative pathogen that causes shigellosis in humans and primates. MxiH antigen is known as one of the invasive factors in ...
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