Shigellosis — United States
An outbreak of _Shigella sonnei_ affecting more than 300 people appears to have been repeatedly imported by international travels and
clustered within multiple communities of men who have sex with men, according to data presented at IDWeek 2015. In addition, testing of the strain revealed frequent resistance to ciprofloxacin and sub-clusters of isolates resistant to a number of other antimicrobial agents, according to Anna Bowen, MD, MPH, of the CDC.
“Currently, there are high rates of
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