Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

A Shigella sonnei clone with extensive drug resistance associated with waterborne outbreaks in China

  • Shaofu Qiu,
  • Kangkang Liu,
  • Chaojie Yang,
  • Ying Xiang,
  • Kaiyuan Min,
  • Kunpeng Zhu,
  • Hongbo Liu,
  • Xinying Du,
  • Mingjuan Yang,
  • Ligui Wang,
  • Yong Sun,
  • Haijian Zhou,
  • Muti Mahe,
  • Jiayong Zhao,
  • Shijun Li,
  • Deshan Yu,
  • Jane Hawkey,
  • Kathryn E. Holt,
  • Stephen Baker,
  • Juntao Yang,
  • Xuebin Xu,
  • Hongbin Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35136-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Shigella sonnei is a major contributor to the global burden of dysenteric diarrhoea in developed countries. In this work, authors report a S. sonnei clone which has caused numerous waterborne shigellosis outbreaks in China from 2015 to 2020.