Shigella species are able to survive in shredded cabbage.

At least three stool cultures should be negative for shigella before the food handlers resume work.

Inside were 30 "very grave" cases of shigella dysentery.

Shigella are present in the diarrhea of people with shigellosis and for 1 or 2 weeks after symptoms have stopped.

Some forms of shigella, generally found in developing countries, can cause dysentery, which may lead to kidney failure and death.

Shigella also causes approximately 580,000 cases annually among travelers and military personnel from industrialized countries.

Laboratory studies suggest that once the shigella organism gets into food, it may survive for weeks, even at freezer temperatures.

These include things like E. coli, salmonella, shigella, and campylobacter.

This pathology is also closely related to shigella spp.

Shigella is one of the leading bacterial causes of diarrhea worldwide.

In these people, the disease appears after infections with the common food-poisoning organisms, salmonella and shigella.

Shigellosis is a type of food poisoning caused by infection with the shigella bacterium.

When drugs are used to treat chronic diarrhea caused by the shigella bacteria, he noted, complications often result.

Some Shigella species are capable of producing indole.

Shigella is a highly contagious form of dysentery and epidemics have struck central Africa for a decade.

A resort in Iowa where we've got suspected shigella because a lot of rain overflowed in private wells.

These include salmonella, typhoid, shigella, giardia, hepatitis A and amoebiasis.

Shigella will thus remain "E. coli in disguise.

Shigella boydii is restricted to the Indian subcontinent.

Shigella species are negative for motility and are not lactose fermenters.

The laboratory tested for three pathogens that can cause serious illness, even death: E. coli, shigella and listeria.

The worst-case scenario is that they could get dysentery, an infection caused by a bacteria like salmonella or shigella.

If shigella is suspected and it is not too severe, the doctor may recommend letting it run its course - usually less than a week.

Shigella is implicated as one of the pathogenic causes of reactive arthritis worldwide.