Shigella sonnei

Shigella sonnei
Gram negative Shigella sonnei bacteria which spent 48 hours cultured on Hektoen enteric agar (HEK).
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Shigella
Species:
S. sonnei
Binomial name
Shigella sonnei
(Levine 1920) Weldin 1927 [1]
Synonyms

Bacterium sonnei Levine 1920

Shigella sonnei is a species of Shigella.[2] Together with Shigella flexneri, it is responsible for 90% of shigellosis cases.[3] Shigella sonnei is named for the Danish bacteriologist Carl Olaf Sonne.[4][5] It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, nonmotile, non-spore-forming bacterium.[6]

  1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Shigella". LPSN.
  2. ^ Shigella+sonnei at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  3. ^ Shigellosis~clinical at eMedicine
  4. ^ Carl Olaf Sonne at Whonamedit?
  5. ^ Shigella sonnei at Whonamedit?
  6. ^ "Shigella sonnei". Microbewiki.
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