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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A bacterium in the genus Shigella, some kinds of which may cause a form of dysentery called shigellosis.
2. 2
   rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon wordnet

Etymology

After Kiyoshi Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who studied shigella.

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