Cross Index Shigella
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods Enterobacteriaceae
Compare Enterobacteriaceae, Arsenophonus nasoniae, Buttiauxella agrestis, Cedecea, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Ewingella americana, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia adecarboxylata, Leminorella, Moellerella wisconsensis, Morganella morganii, Obesumbacterium proteus, Pantoea, Pragia fontium Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella aquatilis, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Tatumella plyseos, Xenorhabdus, Yersina, Yohenella regensburgei

Vibrionacae, Aeromonas, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas shigelloides, Vibrio

Pasteurellaceae, Actinobacillus, Hemophilus, Pasteurella

Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Cardiobacterium hominis, Chromobacterium, Eikenella corrodens, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Zymomonas
Contrast Archaea
Subset  

 

Morphology Shigella
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology Straight rods
Motility Nonmotile
Specialized structures  
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Shigella
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorgano-trophic.
Oxygen Facultatively anaerobic, having both a respiratory and a fermentative type of metabolism.
pH  
Temperature  
Requirements  
Products Ferment sugars without gas production (a few exceptions produce gas). Do not use citrate or malonate as a sole carbon source. Do not grow in KCN or produce H2S.
Enzymes Catalase- positive (with exceptions in one species). Oxidase-negative
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Intestinal pathogens of man and other primates,
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity Causes bacillary dysentery.
Distribution  

 

Genome Shigella
G+C Mol % 49-53
  (Normore, 1973).

 

Reference Shigella
First citation Castellani,A.and A.J. Chalmers (1919) Manual of tropical medicine 3rd ed Willaims Wood and Co. New York.
Emended  
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 423 B. Rowe and R. J. Gross
Bergey's Determinative p 187
References