Shigella boydii

Shigella boydii is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Shigella. Like other members of the genus, S. boydii is a nonmotile, nonsporeforming, rod-shaped bacterium which can cause dysentery in humans through fecal-oral contamination.^{[1][page needed]}

Shigella boydii
Shigella boydii on Hektoen enteric agar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacterales
Family:	Enterobacteriaceae
Genus:	Shigella
Species:	S. boydii
Binomial name
Shigella boydii Ewing 1949

Shigella boydii is the most genetically divergent species of the genus Shigella.^[2] There are 19 known serotypes of Shigella boydii.^[3][4][5] S. boydii is restricted to the Indian subcontinent.^[4]

The species is named after the British bacteriologist John Boyd.^[6]

Sequenced genomes

• Shigella boydii strain BS512 (serotype 18; group 1) has one chromosome and five plasmids.

References

1. Ryan, Kenneth James; Ray, C. George, eds. (2004). Sherris medical microbiology: an introduction to infectious diseases (4 ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional Med/Tech. ISBN 978-0-8385-8529-0.
2. Feng L; Senchenkova SN; Yang J; Shashkov AS; Tao J; Guo H; Zhao G; Knirel YA; Reeves P; Wang L (2004). "Structural and Genetic Characterization of the Shigella boydii Type 13 O Antigen". Journal of Bacteriology. 186 (2): 383–392. doi:10.1128/JB.186.2.383-392.2004. PMC 305744. PMID 14702307.
3. Yang Z., Hu C., Chen J., Chen G., Liu Z. (1990). A new serotype of Shigella boydii. Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao.; 30(4): 284-95
4. Yang F, Yang J, Zhang X, et al. (2005). "Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (19): 6445–6458. doi:10.1093/nar/gki954. PMC 1278947. PMID 16275786.
5. Pupo GM; Lan R; Reeves PR (September 2000). "Multiple independent origins of Shigella clones of Escherichia coli and convergent evolution of many of their characteristics". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (19): 10567–72. Bibcode:2000PNAS...9710567P. doi:10.1073/pnas.180094797. PMC 27065. PMID 10954745.
6. "Species: Shigella boydii". lpsn.dsmz.de. Retrieved 2022-08-19.

External links

• Shigella boydii Genome Project Page — by Entrez
• "Shigella boydii". NCBI Taxonomy Browser. 621.
• Type strain of Shigella boydii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase