Which Bacteria Causes Bacillary Dysentery?

Bacillary dysentery is an intestinal infection

intestinal infection
Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels including: cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others.
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caused by a group of Shigella bacteria which can be found in the human gut.

Which bacteria causes dysentery?

It results from bacteria called Shigella. The disease is called shigellosis. About 500,000 people in the U.S. get it every year. Amoebic dysentery comes from a parasite called Entamoeba histolytica.

What bacteria causes dysentery diarrhea?

Most people who experience dysentery develop either bacterial dysentery or amebic dysentery. Bacterialdysentery is caused by infection with bacteria from Shigella, Campylobacter, Salmonella, or enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Diarrhea from Shigella is also known as shigellosis.

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