Kate S. Baker, Timothy J. Dallman, Philip Ashton, Martin Day et al.
Background Shigellosis is an acute, severe bacterial colitis that, in high-income countries, is typically associated with travel to high-risk regions (Africa, Asia, and Latin America). Since the 1970s, shigellosis has also been reported as a sexually transmitted infection in men who have sex with me...
Simon Le Hello, Amany Bekhit, Sophie A. Granier, Himel Barua et al.
While the spread of Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky resistant to ciprofloxacin across Africa and the Middle-East has been described recently, the presence of this strain in humans, food, various animal species (livestock, pets, and wildlife) and in environment is suspected in other countries o...
Thomas R. Connor, Clare R. Barker, Kate S. Baker, François‐Xavier Weill et al.
Shigella flexneri is the most common cause of bacterial dysentery in low-income countries. Despite this, S. flexneri remains largely unexplored from a genomic standpoint and is still described using a vocabulary based on serotyping reactions developed over half-a-century ago. Here we combine whole g...
Elisabeth Njamkepo, Nizar Fawal, Alicia Tran-Dien, Jane Hawkey et al.
Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries1. A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no...
Stéphane Pouzol, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Dilruba Ahmed, Farhana Khanam et al.
Enteric fever is a major public health concern in endemic areas, particularly in infrastructure-limited countries where Salmonella Paratyphi A has emerged in increasing proportion of cases. We aimed to evaluate a method to detect Salmonella Typhi ( S. Typhi) and Salmonella Paratyphi A ( S. Paratyphi...
Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Selina Akter, Nafisa Azmuda, Munawar Sultana et al.
An environmental freshwater bacterial isolate, DM104, appearing as Shigella-like colonies on selective agar plates was found to show strong and specific serological cross-reactivity with Shigella dysenteriae type 4. Biochemical identification according to the analytical profile index, molecular sero...
Caroline Rouard, Elisabeth Njamkepo, Marie‐Laure Quilici, François‐Xavier Weill
In 2022, the burden of cholera-an acute watery diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 (or more rarely O139) bacteria, which produce cholera toxin-remains high in many African and Asian countries. In the last few years, microbial genomics has made it possible to define the bacterial...
Emilien Nicolas, Stéphane Pouzol, L. Fabre, François‐Xavier Weill et al.
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Thomas R. Connor, Clare R. Barker, Kate S. Baker, François‐Xavier Weill et al.
Shigella flexneri, globally the most frequent cause of bacterial dysentery, is far more diverse, and has caused disease around the world for far longer than other Shigella species by persisting in local environments over extended timescales.