Objective: Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum S.), weed (Imperata cylindrica L.), pearl (Hedyotis corymbosa L.) and nut (Cyperus rotundus are selected weeds found in Indonesia which have been used as ruminants feeding with a complete diet component evidently reported that bioactive contents of provide more protection to microbial attack than crops. This has led an increase interest the invest...

We observed multidrug resistance in 10 (91%) of 11 Shigella isolates from a diarrheal surveillance study in Cambodia. One isolate was resistant to fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins and showed decreased susceptibility to azithromycin. We found mutations in gyrA, parC, β-lactamase, and mphA genes. Multidrug resistance increases concern about shigellosis treatment options.

Shigella sonnei UCN59, isolated during an outbreak of S. sonnei in January 2007, was resistant to azithromycin (MIC 64 mg/L). The isolate contained a plasmid-borne mph(A) gene encoding a macrolide 2 -phosphotransferase that inactivates macrolides. Emergence of the mph(A) gene in S. sonnei may limit usefulness of azithromycin for treatment of shigellosis.

Shigella flexneri is of great concern in the prevalence of shigellosis and resistance to many antibiotics in developing countries. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of a new S. flexneri subserotype, 4S BJ10610, isolated from the stool specimens of a patient in Beijing, China.

Eleven Shigella flexneri (group B) isolates were recovered from epidemiologically linked patrons and food handlers from a restaurant-associated outbreak of shigellosis. Six isolates available for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis were identical. All strains agglutinated in group B and subgroup factor 6 sera but not in group 1 through group 6 sera.

Each day, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses the free SaTScan software to apply prospective space-time permutation scan statistics to strengthen early outbreak detection for 35 reportable diseases. This method prompted early detection of outbreaks of community-acquired legionellosis and shigellosis.

Shigellosis or bacillary dysentery is caused by a group of facultative anaerobic Gram-negative rods of the genus Shigella. Worldwide, about 165 million cases of shigellosis were reported annually (99% occurring in the developing world) with one million associated deaths 1. Approximately 60 per cent of deaths involve children younger than five years 2. Four Shigella species, S. dysenteriae, S. f...

BACKGROUND Shigellosis is rare in Taiwan, with an average annual incidence rate of 1.68 cases per 100,000 persons in 2000-2007. However, the incidence rate for a mountainous township in eastern Taiwan, Zhuoxi, is 60.2 times the average rate for the entire country. Traveling between Zhuoxi's 6 villages (V1-V6) is inconvenient. Disease transmission among the villages/tribes with endemic shigellos...