CDC Issues Health Alert for Extensively Drug Resistant Shigella
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after observing a sharp increase in the number of cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella–a bacteria that causes shigellosis, a major form of inflammatory diarrhea. According to the CDC, the proportion of Shigella infections in the US that are resistant to all known antibiotic treatments rose from zero in 2015 to 0.4% in 2019, before leaping to 5% last year.
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