Word: shigella
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...getting the attention it deserves," says Wandee Varavithya, a doctor who has treated diarrheal diseases for nearly 40 years in Thailand. That needs to change. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by 100 or so intestinal bugs, most commonly rotavirus, E. coli, shigella, campylobacter and salmonella. Thumb sucking doesn't help; it can lead to what doctors call fecal-oral contamination. "Toddlers will always pick up things and put them into their mouths and, if you don't have a clean environment, that can lead to diarrhea," says Therese Dooley, until recently a unicef...
...proof of principle that the strategy is working," says Bermudes. While his team seeks a partner to continue these studies, Vion is sufficiently convinced of the promise of bacteria-based therapies that it holds patents on potential cancer treatments from three more bacteria: listeria, streptococcus and shigella...
DIRTY WATER Each year animal and human feces contaminate pools, rivers, even fountains with Giardia, shigella and more. Part of Colorado's Aurora Reservoir was closed last week because of E. coli...
Elizabeth D. Chao '01, a chemistry concentrator, worked with Stephen Caldewood and Joan Butterton at the Infectious Disease Division of Massachusetts General Hospital on the "Pathogenicity Island of Shigella Dystenteria." She said was supported by a grant from Radcliffe...
...primarily interested in Shigella not only because of its high mortality rate in developing countries, but also because of its recent outbreaks, surprisingly, in the U.S.," she wrote in an e-mail. "Developing more effective treatments against this devastating food-borne pathogen is fascinating to me not only at the microscopic level but also at the macroscopic level, where it becomes clear that cultural and social factors are just as important as the biological factors in causing the disease...