Researchers have tracked down a worrying new strain of Shigella bacteria in the area—one that can resist almost every antibiotic thrown at it. Scientists at the University of California ...

An 'alarming' drug-resistant superbug is spreading across major US cities, doctors warn. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles identified three cases of shigella in the city ...

Stool cultures revealed that all three were infected with Shigella sonnei, a strain of Shigella bacteria that is resistant to five of the antibiotic classes most commonly prescribed for such ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Shigellosis occurs when a person is infected with a well-known bacterial pathogen called Shigella. It most often spreads through contact with fecal matter from an ...