Shigella boydii is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Shigella. Like other members of the genus, S. boydii is a nonmotile, nonsporeforming, rod-shaped ...ShigellaboydiiFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchSpeciesofbacteriumShigellaboydiiS.boydiionHektoenentericagarScientificclassificationKingdom:BacteriaPhylum:ProteobacteriaClass:GammaproteobacteriaOrder:EnterobacteralesFamily:EnterobacteriaceaeGenus:ShigellaSpecies:S. boydiiBinomialnameShigellaboydiiEwing1949ShigellaboydiiisaGram-negativebacteriumofthegenusShigella.Likeothermembersofthegenus,S.boydiiisanonmotile,nonsporeforming,rod-shapedbacteriumwhichcancausedysenteryinhumansthroughfecal-oralcontamination.[1][page needed]S.boydiiisthemostgeneticallydivergentspeciesofthegenusShigella.[2]Thereare19knownserotypesofShigellaboydii.[3][4][5]S.boydiiisrestrictedtotheIndiansubcontinent.[4]ThespeciesisnamedaftertheAmericanbacteriologistMarkFrederickBoyd.[6][7]Sequencedgenomes[edit]S.boydiistrainBS512(serotype18;group1)hasonechromosomeandfiveplasmids.References[edit]^Ryan,KennethJames;Ray,C.George,eds.(2004).Sherrismedicalmicrobiology:anintroductiontoinfectiousdiseases(4 ed.).McGraw-HillProfessionalMed/Tech.ISBN 978-0-8385-8529-0.^FengL;SenchenkovaSN;YangJ;ShashkovAS;TaoJ;GuoH;ZhaoG;KnirelYA;ReevesP;WangL(2004)."StructuralandGeneticCharacterizationoftheShigellaboydiiType13OAntigen".JournalofBacteriology.186(2):383–392.doi:10.1128/JB.186.2.383-392.2004.PMC 305744.PMID 14702307.^YangZ.,HuC.,ChenJ.,ChenG.,LiuZ.(1990).AnewserotypeofShigellaboydii.WeiShengWuXueBao.;30(4):284-95^abYangF,YangJ,ZhangX,et al.(2005)."GenomedynamicsanddiversityofShigellaspecies,theetiologicagentsofbacillarydysentery".NucleicAcidsResearch.33(19):6445–6458.doi:10.1093/nar/gki954.PMC 1278947.PMID 16275786.^PupoGM;LanR;ReevesPR(September2000)."MultipleindependentoriginsofShigellaclonesofEscherichiacoliandconvergentevolutionofmanyoftheircharacteristics".Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A.97(19):10567–72.doi:10.1073/pnas.180094797.PMC 2706