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Shigella dysenteriae
Also known as:
Shiga’s bacillus
Shiga-Kruse bacillus
Associated persons:
Walther Kruse
Kiyoshi Shiga
Description:
A virulent form of Shigella isolated during a severe epidemic of dysentery in Japan in 1896.
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