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Phylogenomics of Shiga’s epidemic dysentery bacillus (Shigella dysenteriae type 1)
Francois-Xavier Weill (PI)
The agent of epidemic dysentery, the bacterium Shigella dysenteriae type 1, was isolated in Japan in 1897 by Dr Kyoshi Shiga during a massive epidemic of bloody diarrhea that caused 20,000 deaths over a […]