How to Use shigellosis in a Sentence

shigellosis

noun

• In recent months, global cases of shigellosis have been on the rise.
  — Lena H. Sun, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• All types of shigellosis—drug-resistant or not—cause the same symptoms.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The demographics of those most affected by this shigellosis strain are also a bit more uncommon.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• Many shigellosis cases resolve with rest and hydration.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Shigella is a bacteria that causes an infection called shigellosis.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Shigella infections known as shigellosis can cause a fever, abdominal cramping, tenesmus and diarrhea that is bloody.
  — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024