| Shigella sonnei | |
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| Gram negative Shigella sonnei bacteria which spent 48 hours cultured on Hektoen enteric agar (HEK). | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Shigella |
| Species: | S. sonnei
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| Binomial name | |
| Shigella sonnei (Levine 1920) Weldin 1927 [1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Bacterium sonnei Levine 1920 | |
Shigella sonnei is a species of Shigella.[2] Together with Shigella flexneri, it is responsible for 90% of shigellosis cases.[3] Shigella sonnei is named for the Danish bacteriologist Carl Olaf Sonne.[4][5] It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, nonmotile, non-spore-forming bacterium.[6]
- ^ Parte, A.C. "Shigella". LPSN.
- ^ Shigella+sonnei at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ Shigellosis~clinical at eMedicine
- ^ Carl Olaf Sonne at Who Named It?
- ^ Shigella sonnei at Who Named It?
- ^ "Shigella sonnei". Microbewiki.