Optimization of virulence functions through glucosylation of Shigella LPS. by West, N, Sansonetti, P, Mounier, J, Exley, R, Parsot, C, Guadagnini, S, Prévost, M, Prochnicka-Chalufour, A, Delepierre, M, Tanguy, M, Tang, C

“…Shigella, the leading cause of bacillary dysentery, uses a type III secretion system (TTSS) to inject proteins into human cells, leading to bacterial invasion and a vigorous inflammatory response. …”

Kajian Kesan Ekstrak Etanol Andrographis Paniculata Dan Andrografolida, Suatu Sebatian Bioaktifnya, Terhadap Aktiviti Enzim Metabolisme Fasa II UGT Dan GST [QP606.G573 N89 2008 f... by Ahmad, Norzainah

“…Andrographis paniculata (Hempedu bumi), from Acanthaceae family is a traditional medicinal plant for diseases of malaria, inflammatory respiratory, asthma, bronchitis, dysentery and many others. …”
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Isolation And Identification Of Chemical Markers From Labisia Pumila (Blume) And Preparation Of Standardised And Nanoformulated Extracts For Anti-Obesity, Antiuterine Fibroid And... by Ahmed Saeed, Mohammed Ali

“…L. pumila has also been used traditionally in the treatment of dysentery, dysmenorrhoea and gonorrhoea …”
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Epithelial and Neutrophil Interactions and Coordinated Response to Shigella in a Human Intestinal Enteroid-Neutrophil Coculture Model by Jose M. Lemme-Dumit, Michele Doucet, Nicholas C. Zachos, Marcela F. Pasetti

“…We demonstrated tissue-driven phenotypic and functional adaptation of PMN and a coordinated epithelial cell and PMN response to Shigella, a primary cause of dysentery in young children in the developing world.…”
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Spatio-temporal pattern and associate factors of intestinal infectious diseases in Zhejiang Province, China, 2008–2021: a Bayesian modeling study by Zhixin Zhu, Yan Feng, Lanfang Gu, Xifei Guan, Nawen Liu, Xiaoxia Zhu, Hua Gu, Jian Cai, Xiuyang Li

“…Results From 2008 to 2021, a total of 101 cholera, 55,298 bacterial dysentery, 131 amoebic dysentery, 5297 typhoid, 2102 paratyphoid, 27,947 HEV, 1,695,925 hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), and 1,505,797 other infectious diarrhea (OID) cases were reported in Zhejiang Province. …”
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A review Study of The Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Alstonia scholaris linn by Alyaa Majid, Hadeel Rashid Faraj

“…The plant is used in conventional, Ayurveda, Unani, homoeopathic, Sidhha/Tamil, and other alternative medical systems to treat a variety of illnesses, including asthma, malaria, fever, dysentery, diarrhea, epilepsy, skin conditions, and snakebites, among others. …”
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Chemical Constituents and Biological Activities of Ficus tikoua Bureau by Liangliang Yao, Shengchao Zhao, Wei Liu, Guanzhen Wang, Chunpeng (Craig) Wan

“…Ficus tikoua Bureau (F. tikoua Bur.) is a perennial woody vine in the Moraceae family that has been used as a traditional folk medicine for centuries to treat many diseases such as chronic bronchitis, diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, and other inflammation-related diseases in certain parts of China, India, Vietnam, and Laos. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Swertia diluta (Gentianaceae) by Zhen Yang, Jinyan Yan, Guoyu Zhu

“…Swertia diluta, a traditional Chinese medicine, is widely used to treat jaundice hepatitis, dysentery, dyspepsia, etc. The plastome is 153,691 bp in length, with one large single copy region of 83,860 bp, one small single copy region of 18,301 bp, and two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 25,765 bp. …”
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Pharmacological and ethnomedicinal studies of Tridax procumbens linn family (Compositeae) for anti-asthmatic activities by Sapan Patel, R. K. Tenguria, P.K. Mishra

“…The  villagers use this plant  in bronchial asthma, dysentery  and diarrhaea.  Leaf juice is generally used to kill the bed bug in cote and wooden furniture  and to protect the woods from termites etc.The whole herb juice in decoction is used by the villagers to check the hemorrhage of wounds.The detailed chemistry of the insecticidal compound was carried out,  which revealed the structure  of the  compound. …”
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Tracking the establishment of local endemic populations of an emergent enteric pathogen. by Holt, K, Thieu Nga, T, Thanh, D, Vinh, H, Kim, D, Tra, V, Campbell, J, Hoang, N, Vinh, N, Minh, P, Thuy, C, Nga, T, Thompson, C, Dung, T, Nhu, N, Vinh, P, Tuyet, P, Phuc, H, Lien, N, Phu, B, Ai, N, Tien, N, Dong, N, Parry, C, Hien, T

“…Shigella sonnei is a human-adapted pathogen that is emerging globally as the dominant agent of bacterial dysentery. To investigate local establishment, we sequenced the genomes of 263 Vietnamese S. sonnei isolated over 15 y. …”

Mutation analysis of apyrase gene of shigella jlexneri - towards the development of vaccine strain by Aun, Seah Chin

“…Virulent Shigella spp. are known to cause bacillary dysentery (shigeilosis) in humans which is characterized by the passage of bloody stools. …”
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Antibacterial, Antioxidant And Anti-Inflammatory Studies Of Lygodium Microphyllum by Ahmad, Radiah

“…Lygodium microphyllum is a fern which has been used traditionally for controlling dysentery, treating swellings and skin diseases, curing hiccups as well as controlling high fever and typhoid fever. …”
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A review of endiandric acid analogues by Wan Salleh, Wan Mohd. Nuzul Hakimi, Ahmad, Farediah, Khong, Heng Yen, Zulkifli, Razauden Mohamed

“…The genus Beilschmiedia and Endiandra belonging to Lauraceae family have been used as folk medicines in treating uterine tumors, rheumatism, pulmonary diseases, dysentery and headache. This report briefly the current information and update on isolated endiandric acid analogues and their pharmacological studies. …”

Acquisition of a large virulence plasmid (pINV) promoted temperature-dependent virulence and global dispersal of O96:H19 enteroinvasive Escherichia coli by Sydney L. Miles, Vincenzo Torraca, Zoe A. Dyson, Ana Teresa López-Jiménez, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, Damián Lobato-Márquez, Claire Jenkins, Kathryn E. Holt, Serge Mostowy

“…ABSTRACT Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) and Shigella are closely related agents of bacillary dysentery. It is widely viewed that EIEC and Shigella species evolved from E. coli via independent acquisitions of a large virulence plasmid (pINV) encoding a type 3 secretion system (T3SS). …”
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Characterization Of Two Chalcone Derivatives Isolated From Finger Root With Nutraceutical Potentials by Mohammed, Ibrahim Awad, Akhtar, Muhammad Nadeem, Abdullah, Hussam Dawood, Hazrulrizawati, Hamid

“…Boesenbergia rotunda is an example of medicinal herbal plants which has been traditionally employed in the treatment of many life-threatening ailments such as diuretic, dysentery, inflammation, aphrodisiac and gastrointestinal disorder.In this study the two chalcone derivatives were isolated from the root of B. rotunda using column-thin chromatography and characterized using different spectroscopy methods such as such as UV-VIS, FTIR, and 1HNMR. …”
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Pharmacobotanical study of Manilkara zapota (L.) P.Royen (Sapotaceae) by Bruna Izabela de Vasconcelos Moura, Bárbara Priscylla Lira de Araújo, Rafaela Damasceno Sá, Karina Perrelli Randau

“…Royen, popularly known as sapoti or sapota (sapodilla), is a tree bearing an important fruit, in addition to different parts of the plant being widely used in folk medicine in the management of inflammation, pain, fevers, coughs, diarrhea, dysentery, among other ailments. This study aimed to conduct a pharmacobotany standardization study of M. zapota. …”
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Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of a well-known Chinese medicinal herb, Scrophularia ningpoensis by Hong-Lian Ai, Chun-Lun Qin, Ke Ye, Zheng-Hui Li

“…Scrophularia ningpoensis has been used as a famous traditional medicinal herb in Asian countries to treat jaundice, dysentery, and the pain of rheumatism. In this paper, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of S. ningpoensis was reported and characterized. …”
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Spirochete Flagella and Motility by Shuichi Nakamura

“…Some members of the spirochetes are pathogenic, including the causative agents of syphilis, Lyme disease, swine dysentery, and leptospirosis. Furthermore, their unique morphologies have attracted attention of structural biologists; however, the underlying physics of viscoelasticity-dependent spirochetal motility is a longstanding mystery. …”
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Environmental issues of children's health in the Kazakh SSR (1941–1943) by Abdukarimova Zhanara, Baigozhina Gulnar, Saktaganova Zauresh, Mazhitova Zhanna

“…Based on archival data the authors of the article concluded that the increase in child mortality in the early years of the war was due to the high incidence of infectious diseases such as whooping cough, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia, scarlet fever, measles, and others. …”
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Commentary: Ignorance as Bias: Radiolab, Yellow Rain, and “The Fact of the Matter” by Paul Hillmer, Mary Ann Yang

“…In 2012 the National Public Radio show “Radiolab” released a podcast (later broadcast on air) essentially asserting that Hmong victims of a suspected chemical agent known as “yellow rain” were ignorant of their surroundings and the facts, and were merely victims of exposure, dysentery, tainted water, and other natural causes. …”
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