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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

  1. Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 536
  2. Loinc
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Shigella - Shigellosis http://www.cdc.gov/shigella/