1888 WIDAL, Georges-Fernand Isidor (1862 – 1929); CHANTEMESSE, André (1851 – 1919)
Sur les microbes de la dysentérie épidémique.
The dysentery bacillus was isolated by Chantemesse and Widal, although they failed to establish its etiological relationship to the disease.
GMN 5090.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5996
1898 SHIGA, Kiyoshi (1870 – 1957)
Ueber den Dysenteriebacillus (Bacillus dysenteriae).
Discovery of the dysentery bacillus, Shigella. Preliminary paper in the same journal, 1898, 23, 599-600.
GMN 5091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6000
1900 KRUSE, Walther (1864 – 1943)
Ueber die Ruhr als Volkskrankheit und ihren Erreger.
Further work on dysentery by Kruse led to the coupling of his name with Shiga to designate both the “Shiga–Kruse bacillus” and “Shiga–Kruse disease”.
GMN 5092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6002
1900 FLEXNER, Simon (1863 – 1946)
On the etiology of tropical dysentery.
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 …
GMN 5093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6006
1915 SONNE, Carl Olaf (1882 – 1948)
Ueber die Bakteriologie der giftarmen Dysenteriebacillen (Para-dysenteriebacillen).
Sonne’s bacillus (Shigella sonnei) was probably described earlier by others, but it was Sonne who first drew serious attention to it. First published as inaugural dissertation, 1914.
GMN 5094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6008
1917 SCHMITZ, Karl Eitel Friedrich (1889 – )
Eine neuer Typus aus der Gruppe der Ruhrbazillen als Erreger einer grösseren Epidemie.
Schmitz’s bacillus – Bact. ambiguum (Shigella schmitzii),a cause of dysentery.
GMN 5095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6010
1918 ANDREWES, Sir Frederick William (1859 – 1932)
Dysentery bacilli: the differentiation of the true dysentery bacilli from allied species.
Shigella alkalescens described.
GMN 3542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4049
