Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles identified three cases of shigella in the city, a bacterial infection ...

In a statement on Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that while none of the infections recorded in 2015 were tied to the Shigella XDR strain, 5% of cases were ...

In their paper, published this month in the Journal of Infection Control, UCLA scientists detailed the discovery of a new XDR strain of Shigella sonnei in three of their patients. According to the ...

Two years ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control began tracking a sharp rise in cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis — infections by particular strains of Shigella bacteria ...

The patients, all of whom were men, had all been infected with the XDR Shigella sonnei strain of the disease, which is resistant to five common antibiotics. All three men were infected within a ...

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of Shigella bacteria, causing severe diarrhea, has emerged in Los Angeles. Researchers at UCLA identified this "superbug" in three patients, all men who have ...

Two years ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control began tracking a sharp rise in cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis — infections by particular strains of Shigella bacteria ...