Shi·gel·la boy·di·i

a species found only in feces of symptomatic individuals; occurs in a low proportion of cases of bacillary dysentery.

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Shi·gel·la boy·di·i

(shē-gel'lă boyd'ē-ī)

A bacterial species found only in feces of symptomatic individuals; occurs in a low proportion of cases of bacillary dysentery.

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Shiga,

Kiyoshi, Japanese bacteriologist, 1870-1957.

Shigella boydii - a species found in feces of symptomatic individuals.

Shigella dysenteriae - a species causing dysentery in humans and in monkeys. Synonym(s): Shiga bacillus; Shiga-Kruse bacillus

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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Those are two observations from the first effort to characterize the epidemiology of Shigella boydii 20, which was first detected by Health Canada in 1999, Dr.

From October 2000 to January 2002, 112 isolates of Shigella boydii 20 were recovered from U.S.

The researchers did not detect a discrete outbreak of Shigella boydii 20 among the patients, and could not implicate a specific vehicle of transmission.

First study of its kind: food may be transmission vehicle for Shigella boydii 20

Shigella boydii is a food pathogen that was implicated in a 1999 foodborne outbreak involving contaminated bean salad that contained fresh parsley and cilantro.

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