Shigellosis
(Shigella)
Shigellosis is an infection caused by Shigella bacteria. Infection may occur after ingesting fecally-contaminated food, beverages or recreational water, from sexual contact with an infected person and from contact with contaminated surfaces. Only a small number of bacteria are needed to make people ill. Symptoms can include diarrhea, stomach pain and fever. Young children, travellers to developing countries and men who have sex with men are at higher risk for shigellosis.
PHO Rounds: Temporal Dynamics of AMR in Shigella in Ontario: Travel, Pandemic Disruption, and Species-Specific Resistance Trajectories
This PHO Rounds will provide an overview of more than a decade of provincial Shigella surveillance, it will draw on integrated case and laboratory data to examine how the epidemiology and resistance landscape have evolved across pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic periods.
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