How to Use shigellosis in a Sentence
shigellosis
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In recent months, global cases of shigellosis have been on the rise.
—Lena H. Sun, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
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All types of shigellosis—drug-resistant or not—cause the same symptoms.
—Julia Landwehr, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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The number of cases of shigellosis ((pronounced she-guh-LO-sis) throughout the state has totaled 454 so far this year.
—Christine Hauser, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
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San Diego County identified 29 cases of shigellosis among homeless people last year and 19 so far this year, including the six in the past week and a half.
—Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
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One of the outbreaks, which occurred on June 11, involved the spread of Shigella bacteria that causes a diarrheal disease called shigellosis.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
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The demographics of those most affected by this shigellosis strain are also a bit more uncommon.
—Julia Landwehr, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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Many shigellosis cases resolve with rest and hydration.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023
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In the colonias, that has led to higher rates of hepatitis A, salmonellosis, shigellosis and tuberculosis compared with the rest of the state, according to researchers at the University of Texas.
—Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2018
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Shigella is a bacteria that causes an infection called shigellosis.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
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At the same time, some common STIs, such as gonorrhea and shigellosis, are becoming harder to treat because of antibiotic resistance.
—Jason Gale | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
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Shigella infections known as shigellosis can cause a fever, abdominal cramping, tenesmus and diarrhea that is bloody.
—Amanda Sealy, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
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While shigellosis mostly infects young children, the CDC said the antibiotic-resistant strains are reported more commonly in adults.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
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Worries grew recently over a modest outbreak among San Diego’s homeless population of shigellosis, which can cause fever, stomach cramps and diarrhea.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
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More recently, 53 cases of shigellosis were detected in an outbreak that started among homeless people last October.
—Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
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Shigella is a type of bacteria that causes shigellosis, an illness involving inflammatory diarrhea that is often bloody and may be prolonged.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Mar. 2023
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More recently, a shigellosis outbreak that started last October was first identified among people experiencing homelessness.
—Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
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Texas Beach Watch lists potential illnesses that could result from ingesting that dangerous water including Bacterial infections such as cholera, salmonellosis, shigellosis, and gastroenteritis.
—Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 21 June 2019
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Today, human challenges conducted under the supervision of institutional review boards are routinely used to research diseases such as influenza, malaria, cholera, salmonella, shigellosis and norovirus.
—WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
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