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MSH: A lactose-fermenting bacterium causing dysentery.,NCI: A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is indole and citrate negative, ferments mannitol and ornithine and is beta-D-galactosidase positive. S. sonnei is found in the human gastrointestinal system and is pathogenic, being a causative agent of shigellosis.,NCI: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Shigella sonnei.
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