Shiga bacillus

Shiga bacillus
Shi·ga bacillus 'shē-gə- n a widely distributed but chiefly tropical bacterium of the genus Shigella (S. dysenteriae) that causes dysentery in humans and monkeys
Shi·ga shē-gä Kiyoshi (1870-1957)
Japanese bacteriologist. Shiga is best known for the discovery in 1897 of a bacillus that causes dysentery. Originally the bacterium was classified in the genus Bacillus, but in 1919 along with several other species it was placed in a new genus, Shigella, which was named in honor of Shiga.

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Shigella dysenteriae 1.

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