Shigellosis is a virulent bacterial disease that is caused by a strain of bacteria of the genus Shigella. Bacillary dysentery or Shigellosis is a common cause of gastro-enteritis worldwide and can ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced this year’s first clustered outbreak of bacillary dysentery — a serious and highly contagious bacterial infection of the colon — brought to ...

Dysentery is an infection of the intestines which causes the passage of bloody stools mixed with mucus. It is caused either by bacteria such as Shigella, or by parasites such as Entamoeba. These forms ...

Shigella is a bacteria which can cause bacillary dysentery or shigellosis which is the most common type of dysentery in the UK. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, ...

A rise in dysentery cases, particularly shigellosis, has been reported in Portland, Oregon, affecting vulnerable populations such as the homeless and drug users. Health officials note resistance to ...

A drug-resistant form of dysentery known as Shigellosis has begun to appear in the U.S, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that doctors stop providing antibiotics to ...

A three-year-old girl died in Kerala's Kozhikode district earlier this month from Shigellosis, a bacterial infection that causes severe, often bloody, diarrhoea. The infection can occur with or ...

Pretty Virginia Loomis, 18, soft-voiced night club singer, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, operated on for appendicitis. Eight days later she was dead of amebic dysentery. Broadway wailed its grief.