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On the etiology of tropical dysentery.

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Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 11, 231-42. 1900 CE.

The organism isolated by Flexner was at first thought to be identical with Shiga’s bacillus. Later Martini and Lentz, Z. Hyg., 1902, 41, 540, showed it to be different; it was named Bact. flexneri, and later Shigella flexneri.

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