An intestinal disease caused by a bacterium amebic dysentery.
Dysentery caused by the bacillus Shigella in contaminated food.
A bacterial infection of the intestinal tract that causes severe diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting. Stools may contain blood or pus.
Diarrheal illness caused by bacterial infections of the colon, especially strains of Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli. It can be relatively mild or severe, endemic or epidemic in presentation. Virulent strains (e.g., Shigella dysenteriae and 0157:H7 E. coli) release exotoxins that can cause systemic infection and damage to the glomeruli of the kidney (hemolytic-uremic syndrome).
Shigellosis, a form of dysentery characterized by an infection in the intestinal tract, is primarily caused by bacteria belonging to the shigella genus.