Bacillary Dysentery
| Bacillary dysentery (*Shigella*, *Campylobacter*, EHEC) | High fever, acute onset, many small stools with pus cells | Stool culture; neutrophils in the stool |
What our notes say
- | Bacillary dysentery (*Shigella*, *Campylobacter*, EHEC) | High fever, acute onset, many small stools with pus cells | Stool culture; neutrophils in the stool | (Amoebiasis: Entamoeba histolytica and the free-living amoebae)
- may occasionally complicate bacillary dysentery (Reiter’s syndrome; (Davidson's Essentials of Medicine - 2nd)
- with passage of blood and mucus simulating bacillary dysentery or (Davidson's Essentials of Medicine - 2nd)
- Shigella species (dysenteriae, flexneri, boydii, sonnei) - Cause bacillary dysentery with bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps, tenesmus (Medical Bacteriology Course Outline (MBMM 3311) — Course Outline)