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Insufficient data exist, [25] but it is estimated to have caused the death of 34,000 children under the age of five in 2013, and 40,000 deaths in people over five years of age. [16] Shigella also causes about 580,000 cases annually among travelers and military personnel from industrialized countries. [26]
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (aka Essential Medicines List for Children [1] or EMLc [1]), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe in children up to twelve years of age to meet the most important needs in a health system.
Shigella sonnei is a species of Shigella. [2] Together with Shigella flexneri, it is responsible for 90% of shigellosis cases. [3] Shigella sonnei is named for the Danish bacteriologist Carl Olaf Sonne. [4] [5] It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, nonmotile, non-spore-forming bacterium. [6]
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Shigella flexneri is a rod shaped, nonflagellar bacterium that relies on actin-based motility. It produces the protein actin in a swift and continuous fashion to propel itself forward within and between the host's cells. [4] This bacterium is gram-negative, non-spore forming Shigella from serogroup B. There are 6 serotypes within this serogroup.
"Children's medicine section of local store 1," she tweeted alongside a photo of empty shelves on Dec. 13. "Store 2 and 3 similarly empty," Bloomgarden added. "The kids are not ok."
Shigella is a genus of bacteria that is Gram negative, facultatively anaerobic, non–spore-forming, nonmotile, rod shaped, and is genetically nested within Escherichia. The genus is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who discovered it in 1897. [1] Shigella causes disease in primates, but not in other mammals; it is the causative agent of human ...