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| Bacillary dysentery | |
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| Specialty | Infectious diseases  |
Bacillary dysentery is a type of dysentery, and is a severe form of shigellosis. It is associated with species of bacteria from the family Enterobacteriaceae.[1] The term is usually restricted to Shigella infections.[2]
Shigellosis is caused by one of several types of Shigella bacteria.[3] Three species are associated with bacillary dysentery: Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri and Shigella dysenteriae.[4] A study in China indicated that Shigella flexneri 2a was the most common serotype.[5]
Salmonellosis caused by Salmonella enterica (serovar Typhimurium) has also been described as a cause of bacillary dysentery,[citation needed] though this definition is less common. It is sometimes listed as an explicit differential diagnosis of bacillary dysentery, as opposed to a cause.[6]
Bacillary dysentery should not be confused with diarrhea caused by other bacterial infections. One characteristic of bacillary dysentery is blood in stool,[7] which is the result of invasion of the mucosa by the pathogen.
- ^ Dysentery,+Bacillary at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ "bacillary dysentery" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Yang F, Yang J, Zhang X, et al. (2005). "Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery". Nucleic Acids Res. 33 (19): 6445–58. doi:10.1093/nar/gki954. PMC 1278947. PMID 16275786.
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- ^ Wang XY, Tao F, Xiao D, et al. (July 2006). "Trend and disease burden of bacillary dysentery in China (1991-2000)". Bull. World Health Organ. 84 (7): 561–8. doi:10.2471/BLT.05.023853. PMC 2627389. PMID 16878230.
- ^ "Bacillary Dysentery". Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ "Enterobacteriaceae, Vibrio, Campylobacter and Helicobacter". Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-19.