Antimicrobial Resistance of Shigella spp., Typhoid Salmonella and Nontyphoid Salmonella

At the end of the nineteenth century, the two great forms of dysentery were identifi ed: sporadically occurring amoebic dysentery (amoebiasis) and bacillary dysentery (shigellosis) that tended to produce outbreaks of diarrheal disease. Since fi rst identifi ed, Shigella spp. have been shown to be important causes of mortality worldwide and for epidemic strains of S. dysenteriae type 1 (Shiga bacillus) major causes of mortality in tropical endemic regions.