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Shigella bacteria
May 9 , 2022
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- Food samples collected from an eatery at Cheruvathur in Kasaragod at Kerala following the death of a girl due to food poisoning.
- It revealed the presence of salmonella and shigella bacteria.
- Shigella is a bacterium that belongs to the enterobacter family — a group of bacteria that reside in the intestine, not all of which cause disease in humans.
- There are four types of Shigella bacteria that affect humans — Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella dysenteriae.
- The fourth type causes the most severe disease because of the toxin it produces.
- In the first phase, the scheme would be launched in some Corporations, municipalities and villages.
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