shigella in English

noun

1

a bacterium that is an intestinal pathogen of humans and other primates, some kinds of which cause dysentery.

There are no pus cells in the stool, thereby ruling out a bacterial diarrhea like shigella dysentery.

Use "shigella" in a sentence

1. * Shigella bacteria : Shigella infection ( called shigellosis ) spreads easily in families , hospitals , and child-care centers .

2. * Shigella ( traveler 's diarrhea ) :

3. Hence, Shigella cells may cause dysentery.

4. However, some bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance, particularly Shigella.

5. The pathogenic bacteria cause cholera , typhoid fever and shigella dysentery .

6. Shigellosis is an infection of the intestines caused by Shigella bacteria.

7. • Enteric precautions are required during acute illness, because Shigella infection is highly contagious

8. Bacillary dysentery is the most common type of dysentery. It results from bacteria called Shigella

9. Bacillary dysentery - an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains shigellosis

10. Bacillary dysentery the most common and violent form of dysentery, caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella

11. However, since then it has borrowed a new gene to make Shiga toxin, which causes Shigella dysentery.

12. Bacillary dysentery is an intestinal infection caused by a group of Shigella bacteria which can be found in the human gut

13. Dysentery is a diarrheal syndrome characterized by frequent small bowel movements with blood and mucus, fever, malaise, and abdominal cramps 1,2,3,4; Bacillary dysentery refers to dysentery caused by infection and invasion of the intestine by Shigella species or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) 1; clinical features associated with infection with Shigella spp

14. Dysentery may also be caused by shigellosis, an infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella, and is then known as Bacillary dysentery (or Marlow syndrome)

15. The term Bacillary dysentery etymologically might seem to refer to any dysentery caused by any bacilliform bacteria, but its meaning is restricted by convention to Shigella dysentery.

16. In these patients one single fecal sample should be collected for stool cultures of Campylobacter, Shigella, and Salmonella, as well as microscopic examination for amoebiasis and Giardiasis.

17. The gene is found in no less than ten species of the Enterobacteriaceae: Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter aerogenes, Enterobacter cloacae, Cronobacter sakazakii, Shigella sonnei, Kluyvera species, Citrobacter species, and Raoultella ornithinolytica.

18. Bacillary dysentery the most common and violent form of dysentery, caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella. It is most common in the tropics, the subtropics, and East Asia and can be fatal, especially among children