Preventing Foodborne Illness: Shigellosis

This document is FSHN05-17, one of a series of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension. Originally published September 2005. Revised July 2012. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/.

Keith R. Schneider, professor; Soohyoun Ahn, assistant professor; Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, professor; Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611. The authors wish to acknowledge the following persons for their contributions to previous editions of this publication: Michael J. Mahovic, former graduate student, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, and Riya Shukla, then program co-coordinator, C. Wayne Ellett Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic, The Ohio State University.