title: Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga: discoverer of the dysentery bacillus.
abstract: The clinical manifestations of dysentery have been described for centuries, and the prototypic bacterial agent, Shigella dysenteriae, was identified 100 years ago. In the English language there has been remarkably little written about Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga, discoverer of the dysentery bacillus. We submit a brief biography of Dr. Shiga and the circumstances leading to his discovery, which proved the bacterial etiology of nonamebic dysentery.
authors.affiliation: South Jersey Infectious Disease, Somers Point, and Department of Arts and Humanities, Somers Point, New Jersey 08244, USA.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Trofa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ueno-Olsen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Oiwa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
mesh_terms: D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan