Dysentery bacillus (Shigella)
Bacilo de la disentería (Shigella)
- Date
- 1897 · confidence high
- Place
- Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Shiga Kiyoshi
- People
- 👤 Kiyoshi Shiga1871–1957
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Identification of the bacterium causing bacillary dysentery during an epidemic that killed more than 20,000 people in Japan. The genus Shigella is named after him, as is the Shiga toxin.
What it led to
- diagnosis and control of dysentery
- study of Shiga toxin and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli