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Shigella
Associated persons:
Kiyoshi Shiga
Description:
A genus of gram-negative, non-lactose-fermenting, non-motile, non-spore forming rod-shaped bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. It contains a number of species that cause digestive disturbance ranging from mild diarrhoea to severe and often fatal dysentery.
Bibliography:
- K. Shiga:
Ueber den Dysenteriebazillus (Bacillus dysenteriae).
Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten, 1898, 24, Erste Abteilung: 817-828 + 870-874.
Preliminary report in: Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten, 1898, 23: 599-600.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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