It’s called shigellosis, and comes from easily-spread bacteria that are proving to be more and more resistant to antibiotics.
Colonial morphology of Shigella boydii bacteria cultivated on a Hektoen enteric agar surface, 1976. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control . that it has been monitoring an increase in a particular stomach bug that’s becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotic intervention.
A shigella infection, called shigellosis, brings about diarrhea that lasts for several days, usually up to a week, and possibly also fever and stomach cramps. It is caused by bacteria that spreads easily, typically through person-to-person contact including sexual contact, and indirectly through contaminated food and water.
The CDC estimates that shigella cause about 450,000 diarrheal illnesses, 5,400 hospitalizations, and 40 deaths each year in the United States. And now a strain that has become "extensively drug-resistant,"Figure: Percentage of Shigella isolates that showed an extensively drug resistant phenotype or genotype in the United States, by year, 2015–2022. infections reported to the CDC were caused by extensively drug-resistant strains, compared with none in 2015.
But on Feb. 24, the CDC said it has observed an increase in antimicrobial-resistant infections among the following adult populations in particular: International travelersSymptoms in some cases can last more than a month. And in further cases, it may take several months before bowel habits return to normal.
, shigellosis can cause complications including reactive arthritis, bloodstream infections, seizures, or hemolytic-uremic syndrome , a kidney complication most commonly seen in child patients. to give further information to healthcare providers about diagnosis and managing the XDR strain infections since they are difficult to treat. As of now, the CDC does not have recommendations for any antimicrobial treatment of XDR strains.
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