Kansas City sees spike in Shigella infections
(Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Updates to the Adult and Adolescent Opportunistic Infections Guidelines
The Bacterial Enteric Infections section of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents was recently updated. This update provides new data on ciprofloxacin resistance in Shigella sonnei and improved clinical success when Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is treated with vancomycin. Limited data suggest fecal microbiota therapy for recurrent CDI may be safe and successful in HIV-infected patients.
(Source: AIDSinfo At-a-Glance: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research, A Service of the U.S. Department of Health and...
Source: AIDSinfo At-a-Glance: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research, A Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - August 28, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
[Editors' Choice] Taking the STING out of infection
Analysis of how Shigella inhibits STING activity reveals that STING becomes activated upon reaching the Golgi membranes. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - August 19, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Nancy Gough (mailto:ngough at aaas.org) Source Type: news
Superbug threat prompts West to revisit Soviet-era virus therapy
Alarmed by rising resistance to antibiotics scientists and governments are taking a fresh look at bacteria-chomping viruses first isolated a century ago from the stools of patients recovering from dysentery. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Growing Concern Over Drug-Resistant Shigella in USGrowing Concern Over Drug-Resistant Shigella in US
Recent outbreaks of Shigellosis in the United States that are resistant to ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, and other antibiotics prompts a Health Alert Network advisory from federal health officials. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Notes from the Field: Outbreaks of Shigella sonnei Infection with Decreased Susceptibility to Azithromycin Among Men Who Have Sex with Men — Chicago and Metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul, 2014
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 5, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Azithromycin Unlikely to Be Effective for Shigellosis in Men Who Have Sex With Men (FREE)
By Cara Adler
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
All tested Shigella isolates from two recent outbreaks among men who have sex with men showed … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - June 5, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Giant panda gut bacteria can't efficiently digest bamboo
It's no wonder that giant pandas are always chewing and eating, say Chinese researchers: their gut bacteria are not the type for efficiently digesting bamboo. The bamboo-eating giant panda actually harbors a carnivore-like gut microbiota predominated by bacteria such as Escherichia/Shigella and Streptococcus, according to new research. Giant pandas evolved from bears that ate both plants and meat, researchers said, and started eating bamboo exclusively about two million years ago. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
UK agencies in quake health warning
There is a risk of serious outbreaks of disease such as cholera and dysentery in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, UK aid agencies warn. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Disease fears in the aftermath of Nepal disaster
Struggle to provide shelter and sanitation to prevent cholera, dysentery and other water-borne conditionsRelated items from OnMedicaWHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergencyEmotional support offered to Britons in Haiti WHO activates its response to the tsunami and earthquakeUN lacks resources to defeat EbolaGood medical planning cut quake death toll (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - May 5, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Transmission of Shigella sonnei Resistant to CiprofloxacinTransmission of Shigella sonnei Resistant to Ciprofloxacin
Although ciprofloxacin is the first-line treatment for adults with shigellosis, a new strain has recently been identified which shows resistance to this antibiotic. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
GastroBreak: MDR Shigella Hits U.S., Art Goes Gluten-Free
(MedPage Today) -- The latest news and research in gastroenterology. (Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology)
Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology - April 8, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Multidrug-resistant shigellosis spreading in the United States
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States and spreading it to others who have not traveled, according to a new report. Shigella sonnei bacteria resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin sickened 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico between May 2014 and February 2015. Research by the CDC found that the drug-resistant illness was being repeatedly introduced as ill travelers returned and was then infecting other people in a series of outbreaks around the country. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - April 7, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
World Health Day 2015: How Scientists Track Food Poisoning
Last week’s post on antibiotic resistance in the environment, promoted by herbicides and spread by dust storms from factory farms is a good segue into this week’s observance of the World Health Organization’s Safe Food Day. We also just had news of an outbreak of antibiotic resistant Shigella infections in the U.S., important because the bacteria is unexpectedly resistant to Ciprofloxacin, the oral antibiotic commonly used to treat it, and because it was widespread across the country. Before that there was a Listeria outbreak from ice cream. It seems like there is always something. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - April 7, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone Source Type: news
Importation and Domestic Transmission of Shigella sonnei Resistant to Ciprofloxacin — United States, May 2014–February 2015
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - April 3, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
