Shigella dysenteriae


Shi·gel·la dys·en·te·ri·ae

a species causing severe necrotizing dysentery in humans induced by a virulent shiga toxin found only in feces of symptomatic individuals; the type species of the genus Shigella. Synonym(s): Shiga bacillus, Shiga-Kruse bacillus

Shigella dysenteriae

Shigella group A Microbiology The least commonly isolated and most virulent Shigella serotype

Shi·gel·la dys·en·te·ri·ae

(shē-gel'lă dis-en-ter'ē-ē) A bacterial species causing dysentery in humans and in monkeys, found only in feces of symptomatic individuals. The type species of the genus Shigella.
Synonym(s): Shiga-Kruse bacillus.

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 bacillusShigella 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 bacillusShigella sonnei - a species causing mild dysentery and also summer diarrhea in children. Synonym(s): Sonne bacillusShigella - a genus of nonmotile, aerobic to facultatively anaerobic bacteria (family Enterobacteriaceae), all of whose species produce dysentery.Shiga bacillus - Synonym(s): Shigella dysenteriaeShiga-Kruse bacillus - Synonym(s): Shigella dysenteriaeshigellosis - bacillary dysentery caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella.