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Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae, closely related to Escherichia coli — so closely that many 16S rRNA-based studies report them as the Escherichia/Shigella complex, unable to distinguish the two gene…
A Gram-negative intracellular pathogen causing bacillary dysentery (shigellosis), responsible for approximately 165 million illness episodes and over 1 million deaths annually, predominantly in children under 5 in developing countries. S. flexneri relies on nickel-depen…