Web Directory

» Bad Bug Book: Shigella spp.
   Includes cause, associated foods, complications, and outbreaks.
   http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070563.htm

» InteliHealth: Shigellosis
   Includes cause, prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, symptoms, and treatment.
   http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/32094.html

» Kidshealth: Shigellosis
   Includes cause, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
   http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/shigella.html

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Shigella Enteritis
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, complications, prevention, and treatment.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000295.htm

» Medmicro: Shigella
   Medical and scientific information on this organism and the disease it causes.
   http://www.cehs.siu.edu/fix/medmicro/shige.htm

» Microbewiki: Shigella
   Provides information on Shigella dysenteriae, S. flexneri, S. boydii and S. sonnei, their classification, genome structure, life cycle, metabolism, pathology and current research.
   http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Shigella

» Patient UK: Bacillary Dysentery
   Provides information on this bacterial infection, including its epidemiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, investigation, management, prognosis and prevention.
   http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Bacillary-Dysentery.htm

» Shigella: An Infectious Foodborne Illness
   Fact sheet from Ohio State University Extension about this germ which causes an infectious disease.
   http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5563.html

» Shigellosis - General Information
   Frequently asked questions list about shigella and shigellosis.
   http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/shigellosis/

» The Merck Manual: Shigellosis
   Features symptoms, cause, treatment, and prevention.
   http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch190/ch190q.html

» WHO: Shigella
   Factsheet with disease and vaccine information.
   http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/shigella/en/

» Wikipedia: Shigellosis
   Encyclopedia article on this foodborne infection, also known as bacillary dysentery, caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigellosis

» eMedicine - Shigellosis
   Article by Joyann A Kroser, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/182767-overview