Shigella bacteria are mainly found in humans, so person-to-person spread is most common. · You only need to ingest a small number of these bacteria to become ...

Shigella are microbiologically characterized as gram-negative, non-spore-forming, nonmotile bacteria. Their cells are 0.4 to 0.6 micrometre ...

Shigellosis continues to be a major public health problem and remains endemic in many developing countries. Among Shigella species, Shigella dysenteriae type ...

營養狀況及病原菌血清型有關，Shigella dysenteriae type 1 感染導致較高的. 疾病嚴重度，合併症包含：毒性巨結腸症(toxic megacolon)、腸穿孔(intestinal.

Abstract. Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is the causative agent of the most severe form of bacillary dysentery, which occurs as epidemics in many developing ...

Shigella dysenteriae is a gram-negative bacterium that causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis. The disease can be divided into two phases. ... The first phase, ...

Shigella boydii; Shigella dysenteriae. S. dysenteriae and S. boydii are rare in the United States, though they continue to be important causes of disease in low ...

flexneri strains produce ShET1 and ShET2, which may contribute to diarrhea. S. dysenteriae strains produce Shiga toxin, which is hemolytic similar to the verotoxin ...

Shigella dysenteriae is a species of the rod-shaped bacterial genus Shigella. ... Shigella species can cause shigellosis (bacillary dysentery). Shigellae are Gram- ...