False-colour transmission electron micrograph of a rod-shaped bacterium,Shigella sp.,a pathogenic strain causing dysentery. Dysentery,affecting mainly the large intestines,varies in severity from a mild attack of diarrhoea to an accute infection. Until the introduction of the drug sulphonamides in the late 1930s it was a killer disease all over the world. It still is among the young,elderly & malnourished. The infection is spread by flies,direct contact,& water contaminated by faeces containing the bacillus. Magnification: x15,600 at 6x4.5cm size | |
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