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

More general terms

• Enterobacteriaceae

More specific terms

• Shigella boydii
• Shigella dysenteriae
• Shigella flexneri
• Shigella sonnei

Additional terms

• Reiter's syndrome
• shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)