Shiga,
Kiyoshi, Japanese bacteriologist, 1870-1957. Shigella boydii - a species found in feces of symptomatic individuals.
Shigella flexneri - a species found in the feces of symptomatic individuals and of convalescents or carriers; the most common cause of dysentery epidemics and sometimes of infantile gastroenteritis. Synonym(s):
Flexner bacillus;
paradysentery bacillus Shigella sonnei - a species causing mild dysentery and also summer diarrhea in children. Synonym(s):
Sonne bacillus Shigella - a genus of nonmotile, aerobic to facultatively anaerobic bacteria (family Enterobacteriaceae), all of whose species produce dysentery.
Shiga bacillus - Synonym(s): Shigella dysenteriae
Shiga-Kruse bacillus - Synonym(s): Shigella dysenteriae
shigellosis - bacillary dysentery caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella.
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