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  1. Discovery of Shigella. Kiyoshi Shiga (志賀 潔, Shiga Kiyoshi, February 7, 1871 – January 25, 1957) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He had a well-rounded education and career that led to many scientific discoveries. In 1897, Shiga was credited with the discovery and identification of the Shigella dysenteriae microorganism which ...

  2. Shiga Kiyoshi (born Feb. 7, 1871, Sendai, Japan—died Jan. 25, 1957, Tokyo) was a Japanese bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which is named after him. Shiga graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1896. Two years earlier he had begun work with Kitasato Shibasaburo, who had discovered ...

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  3. Nov 1, 1999 · In 1936, as a senior scientist and honored guest at the tercentenary celebration at Harvard University, Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga began his address as follows: “The discovery of the dysentery bacillus stirred my young heart with hopes of eradicating the disease…Many thousands still suffer from this disease every year, and the light of hope that once burned so brightly has faded as a dream of a ...

    • Andrew F. Trofa, Hannah Ueno-Olsen, Ruiko Oiwa, Masanosuke Yoshikawa
    • 1999
  4. The clinical manifestations of dysentery have been described for centuries, and the prototypic bacterial agent, Shigella dysenteriae, was identified 100 years ago. In the English language there has been remarkably little written about Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga, discoverer of the dysentery bacillus. We submit a brief biography of Dr. Shiga and the ...

    • Andrew F. Trofa, Hannah Ueno-Olsen, Ruiko Oiwa, Masanosuke Yoshikawa
    • 1999
  5. The history of Shigella, the causative agent of bacillary dysentery, is a long and fascinating one. This brief historical account starts with descriptions of the disease and its impact on human health from ancient time to the present. Our story of the bacterium starts just before the identification of the dysentery bacillus by Kiyoshi Shiga in ...

    • Keith A. Lampel, Samuel B. Formal, Anthony T. Maurelli
    • 10.1128/ecosalplus.ESP-0006-2017
    • 2018
    • 2018/01
  6. Shiga of Shigellosis. Kiyoshi Shiga (1870–1957) was born in Sendai, Japan. His innate family boasted 4 generations of physicians. After graduation from the Tokyo Imperial University in 1896, he was appointed assistant at the Tokyo Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The following year her reported discovery of the pathogenic organism ...

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  8. Shiga's father, a successful administrator of the samurai class centenary celebration at Harvard University, Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga under the old regime, lost his position during the Restoration, began his address as follows: "The discovery of the dysentery an event that forced economic hardship on his family. Young.

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