Shigella accounts for about 10% of diarrhea illness in travelers to Mexico, South America, and the tropics.
Shigella is a non-motile, non-sporing, non-capsulated bacteria. It causes bacillary dysentery.
Shigella are extremely infectious bacteria, and ingestion of just 10 organisms is enough to cause severe diarrhea and dehydration.
staphylococcus,shigella
Shigella are identified by a combination of their appearance under the microscope and various chemical tests.
The bacteria is named in honor of Shiga, a Japanese researcher, who discovered the organism in 1897.
Shigellosis is an infection of the intestinal tract by a group of bacteria called Shigella.
The result is a colitis that produces multiple ulcers, which can bleed.
Bacteria do not have bank accounts.
The common name for Shigella is Dysentery. This causes a severe, watery diarrhea. A person loses so much water it is fatal. This disease also is caused by an amoeba.
Escherichia coli-Salmonella-Shigella-Enterobacter
E. coli is a motile bacteria. It utilizes flagella(whip-like structures) in order to engage in locomotion.
A rod-shaped bacteria known to cause food-born ilnesses with symptoms of sudden and severe diarrhea.