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    Extensively drug-resistant Shigella sonnei strain emerges in France

    2023-03-21T14:32:00Z

    Scientists monitoring Shigella in France  have detected the emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Shigella sonnei. Bacterial genome sequencing and case characteristics suggest that these strains, which originated in South Asia, mainly spread among men who have sex with men.