A drug-resistant strain of a highly contagious sexually-transmitted bowel infection that commonly causes gastro is circulating in Victoria, with the vast majority of cases being suffered by men who have sex with men, reports MeljCunningham
, reveal there were 171 cases of the drug-resistant bacteria reported from early 2018 to mid-2019, compared to just a handful of cases for the same period the year before.
"These things can seemingly emerge from nowhere and spread very rapidly. One of the most concerning aspects of our data is that 80 or so years ago we saw just a tiny handful of these very drug resistant cases and now it is becoming one of the more dominant strains of shigella." “Our findings strongly suggested person-to-person transmission within specific sexual networks,” Professor Williamson said.
Professor Williamson, who is deputy director of the Microbiological Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute, said shigella was the most infectious of all gastrointestinal viruses.People suffering the drug-resistant strain of shigellosis may need intravenous antibiotics to kill the infection.
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