SHIGELLA


Meaning of SHIGELLA in English

noun (plural ~e; also -gellas) Etymology: New Latin, from Kiyoshi Shiga died 1957 Japanese bacteriologist Date: 1937 any of a genus ( Shigella ) of nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria that cause dysenteries in animals and especially humans, shigellosis

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