Word: shigella
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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...
...environmental tests, which have discounted such possible causes as salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria, were administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, S.C., and the Food and Drug Administration in Washington...
Thus far, health officials have found no common origin of the mysterious illness. However, incoming tests from patient cultures have now ruled out salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria as a potential cause of the illness...