| shigella in brazilian children with acute diarrhoea: prevalence, antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes. | diarrhoeal disease is still considered a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children. among diarrhoeagenic agents, shigella should be highlighted due to its prevalence and the severity of the associated disease. here, we assessed shigella prevalence, drug susceptibility and virulence factors. faeces from 157 children with diarrhoea who sought treatment at the children's hospital joão paulo ii, a reference children´s hospital in belo horizonte, state of minas gerais, brazil, were cultur ... | 2013 | 23440111 |