Summary
Project Summary/Abstract Enteric infection with Shigella spp. can lead to symptoms ranging from acute watery diarrhea to sudden, severe dysentery. Approximately 212,000 diarrheal deaths annually are attributed to Shigella (12.5% of total diarrheal deaths) with a disproportionate impact in low resource countries. The impact in low resource countries was illustrated by a reanalysis of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) which found that Shigella has the highest attributable fraction for diarrhea in children < 60 months. While recent studies have highlighted the burden of the disease, th
