Name: Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1897) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus dysentericus" Shiga 1897

Etymology: dy.sen.te.ri.ae. L. gen. fem. n. dysenteriae, of dysentery

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 13313; CIP 57.28; DSM 4781; NCTC 4837

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X96966 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Bacillus dysentericus" Shiga 1897	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.
  • According to Yabuuchi, the correct citation is Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1897) Castellani and Chalmers 1919, not Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 as cited in the Approved Lists. Publication: Yabuuchi E. Bacillus dysentericus (sic) 1897 was the first taxonomic rather than Bacillus dysenteriae 1898. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1041.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "T".

Parent taxon: Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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Record number: 780914