Outbreak of Dysentery Caused by Shigella boydii 4

Investigation of Food Poisoning Outbreak Caused by Shigella in Children Referred to Kerman Afzalipour Hospital

Background & Aims:Shigella infection is still a health problem in less developed countries. This infection is a major cause of food poisoning that sometimes caused morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate outbreak of Shigella food poisoning in children referred to Kerman Afzalipour hospital. Method: In September 2015, a large number of children an...

The indirect haemagglutination test in dysentery caused by Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri.

The examination of cultures of stools is mostly used in establishing the diagnosis of bacillary dysentery. Agglutination, the most frequently used serological investigation, does not give reliable results and is therefore not generally used. The bacteriological examination of stools fails in a certain percentage of cases, irrespective of the mode of culture used. Particularly troublesome are ex...

An outbreak of bacillary dysentery caused by quinolone-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 in a northeastern state of India.

Meningitis caused by Pseudallescheria boydii.

We present a 43-year-old immunocompetent man who developed meningitis caused by Pseudallescheria boydii. The patient had no history of near drowning, trauma, steroid administration, operations or any other underlying systemic disease. He presented with intermittent fever associated with headache, bilateral eye pain, and vomiting. Progressive hydrocephalus was noted during the course of the dise...

Shigella boydii serotypes in Egypt.

While Shigella boydii serotypes have been reported on numerous occasions from many parts of the world (Weil and Saphra, 1953), they rarely have comprised more than a small proportion of the total number of Shigella found, and knowledge of their distribution, cultural characteristics, immunological relationships and pathogenicity is incomplete in some respects. This is particularly true of the m...