shigella

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shigella

/ʃɪˈɡɛlə/

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After Kiyoshi Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who studied shigella.

noun shigella · shigellas · shigellae

A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause a form of dysentery called shigellosis.

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@misc{shigella_2026,
  title = {shigella},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shigella},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}