Kiyoshi Shiga

                                                                           Kiyoshi Shiga 

 

 

 

In 1897, during a severe dysentery epidemic in Japan, bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga successfully isolated the causative organism from patients’ stool samples. 

 

The epidemic occurred in Japan and caused over 90,000 cases with high mortality, making it a major public health crisis.

 

Shiga demonstrated that the bacterium produced a potent toxin (now called Shiga toxin), which plays a central role in the disease. 

                                                         Kiyoshi Shiga = Shigella

                                                            Shigella = Shigellosis 

 

 

 

 Classification Of Shigella

 

Virulence Factors Of Shigella

 

 

 

  

Pathophysiology

 

 

 

 

 

Shigellosis

 

 

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