"Dysentery, Bacillary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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DYSENTERY caused by gram-negative rod-shaped enteric bacteria (ENTEROBACTERIACEAE), most often by the genus SHIGELLA. Shigella dysentery, Shigellosis, is classified into subgroups according to syndrome severity and the infectious species. Group A: SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE (severest); Group B: SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; Group C: SHIGELLA BOYDII; and Group D: SHIGELLA SONNEI (mildest).
| Descriptor ID |
D004405
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.310.229 C06.405.205.331.479 C06.405.469.300.479
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| Concept/Terms |
Shigellosis- Shigellosis
- Shigella Infection
- Infection, Shigella
- Infections, Shigella
- Shigella Infections
- Shigella Dysentery
- Dysenteries, Shigella
- Dysentery, Shigella
- Shigella Dysenteries
Dysentery, Shigella flexneri- Dysentery, Shigella flexneri
- Dysenteries, Shigella flexneri
- Shigella flexneri Dysenteries
- Shigella flexneri Dysentery
Dysentery, Shigella sonnei- Dysentery, Shigella sonnei
- Dysenteries, Shigella sonnei
- Shigella sonnei Dysenteries
- Shigella sonnei Dysentery
Dysentery, Shigella boydii- Dysentery, Shigella boydii
- Dysenteries, Shigella boydii
- Shigella boydii Dysenteries
- Shigella boydii Dysentery
Dysentery, Shigella dysenteriae- Dysentery, Shigella dysenteriae
- Dysenteries, Shigella dysenteriae
- Shigella dysenteriae Dysenteries
- Shigella dysenteriae Dysentery
- Dysentery, Shiga bacillus
- Shiga bacillus Dysentery
- Dysentery, Shigella dysenteriae type 1
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Empiric antimicrobial therapy of domestically acquired acute diarrhea in urban adults. Arch Intern Med. 1990 Mar; 150(3):541-6.