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Flexner's bacillus
Also known as:
Flexner-Harris bacillus
Shigella flexneri
Associated persons:
Simon Flexner
Kiyoshi Shiga
Description:
A species of Shigella causing tropical dysentery.
Harris - the name of the patient from whose faeces Flexner isolated the bacillus.
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