First important step towards the development of a multivalent Shigella vaccine against severe diarrheal disease SCHLIEREN, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GlycoVaxyn AG, a leader in the development of ...

Secretion of fluid by rabbit ileum and the relation of the secretion to intestinal adenylate cyclase, phosphodiesterase, and cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) were compared in ...

The largest genetic study on the bacterium responsible for epidemic dysentery has revealed that the Shigella dysenteriae pathogen, which remains a real scourge in Africa and Asia, probably originated ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A drug-resistant bacteria is causing widespread concern amongst U.S. health officials. Shigella, which causes prolonged diarrhea that is sometimes bloody, fever and stomach pain ...

There have been numerous reports of infections with Shigella strains that are not susceptible to the antibiotics most commonly used to treat such infections, according to a Centers for Disease Control ...

As per the CDC, there are four types of Shigella bacteria that affects humans- Shigella Sonnei, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii and Shigella dysenteriae. The fourth type of infection causes the ...

The Milwaukee Health Department said a case of shigellosis was reported at La Escuela Fratney. Shigella, a highly-contagious bacteria, can cause stomach pain, diarrhea and fever. A doctor said people ...

(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) Last week, an 11-year-old boy died in Kozhikode, Kerala due to a ...