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Shigella
Epidemiology:
- transmitted person to person & consumption of contaminated food & water
Pathology: see shigellosis
Laboratory:
- Shigella Ab in serum
- Shigella serotype
- Shigella DNA
- Shigella+EIEC invasion plasmid antigen H gene
- Shigella identified by culture
- lactose -; H2S -; gas -; indole -; methyl red +; Voges-Proskauer -; citrate -; lysine -; motility -
- also see shigellosis
Related
Reiter's syndrome
shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)
Specific
Shigella boydii
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigella flexneri
Shigella sonnei
General
Enterobacteriaceae
Properties
KINGDOM: monera
DIVISION: SCHIZOMYCETES
References
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 536
- Loinc
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shigella - Shigellosis
http://www.cdc.gov/shigella/