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Definition of Shiga bacillus
1. Noun. A bacillus that causes dysentery.
Medical Definition of Shiga bacillus
1. A species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that is extremely pathogenic and causes severe dysentery. Infection with this organism often leads to ulceration of the intestinal epithelium. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiga Bacillus
Literary usage of Shiga bacillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1904)
"The number of infections in which the Shiga bacillus has been found is small in
comparison to the number in which the Flexner type has been obtained. ..."
2. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"The Shiga bacillus does not change the color of the medium, its colonies appearing as
... On litmus-mannite-agar the Shiga bacillus produces no acid, ..."
3. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"Martini and Lentz considered that the Shiga bacillus was the true dysentery type
and that the mannite fermenting variety or varieties might be mere ..."
4. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"Martini and Lentz considered that the Shiga bacillus was the true dysentery type
and that the mannite-fer- menting variety or varieties might be mere ..."
5. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1912)
"In the United States Flexner and Harris find an organism which answers the
description of the ordinary Shiga bacillus. The difference between the different ..."
6. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"Martini and Lentz considered that the Shiga bacillus was the true dysentery type
and that the mannite-fer- menting variety or varieties might be mere ..."
7. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser, Stewart Woodford Young (1914)
"An Anti-Y bacillus serum, which agglutinated this bacillus 1 to 6400, agglutinated
the Baltimore bacillus 1 to 1600, and the Shiga bacillus 1 to 100. ..."
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