RT Book, Section
A1 Sansonetti, Philippe J.
A1 Bergounioux, Jean
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141408793
T1 SHIGELLOSIS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141408793
RD 2025/04/29
AB The  discovery  of  Shigella  as  the  etiologic  agent  of  dysentery—a  clinical  syndrome  of  fever,  intestinal  cramps,  and  frequent  passage  of  small,  bloody,  mucopurulent  stools—is  attributed  to  the  Japanese  microbiologist  Kiyoshi  Shiga,  who  isolated  the  Shiga  bacillus  (now  known  as  Shigella  dysenteriae  type  1)  from  patients’  stools  in  1897  during  a  large  and  devastating  dysentery  epidemic.  Shigella  cannot  be  distinguished  from  Escherichia  coli  by  DNA  hybridization  and  remains  a  separate  species  only  on  historical  and  clinical  grounds.