False-colour transmission electron micrograph of a rod-shaped bacterium, Shigella sp., a pathogenic strain causing dysentery. Dysentery, affecting mai

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False-colour transmission electron micrograph of a rod-shaped bacterium, Shigella sp., a pathogenic strain causing dysentery. Dysentery, affecting mainly the large intestines, varies in severity from a mild attack of diarrhoea to an accute infection. Until the introduction of the drug sulphonamides in the late 1930s it was a killer disease all over the world. It still is among the young, elderly & malnourished. The infection is spread by flies, direct contact, & water contaminated by faeces containing the bacillus. Magnification: x15,600 at size.

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Photo credit: © LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: bacteria, bacterial, bacteriology, bacterium, dysentery, electron, micro-organisms, microbe, microbes, microbiology, micrograph, shigella, tem, transmission, type