RT Book, Section
A1 Sansonetti, Philippe J.
A1 Bergounioux, Jean
A2 Loscalzo, Joseph
A2 Fauci, Anthony
A2 Kasper, Dennis
A2 Hauser, Stephen
A2 Longo, Dan
A2 Jameson, J. Larry
SR Print(0)
ID 1197340605
T1 Shigellosis
T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 21e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264268504
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1197340605
RD 2024/04/19
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.