Bacteria that grow readily in foods, especially milk, and cause bacterial dysentery.
A genus of bacteria which causes dysentery.
A genus of nonmotile rodlike Gram-negative bacteria normally present in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded animals and man. They ferment carbohydrates without the formation of gas. Some species are pathogenic. S. dysenteriae is associated with bacillary dysentery.
The name given to a group of rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that are the cause of bacillary dysentery.
A genus of gram-negative, non-lactose-fermenting bacilli of the family Enterobacteriaceae. It contains a number of species that cause digestive disturbance ranging from mild diarrhea to a severe and often fatal dysentery.
A type of bacterium belonging to the Shigella genus, with certain species capable of causing dysentery.