Give the causative organism and symptoms of Bacillary Dysentery
• Bacillary dysentery is caused by Shigella sp. (Shigella sonnei, S. dysenteraei).
- Incubation period is about 1 to 7 days.
- Causes abdominal pain, cramps, and inflammation of intestinal mucousa, diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea and fever.
- In severe cases; intestinal bleeding, electrolytic imbalance, ulceration, kidney failure and jaundice.