Unspecific Colitis due to Shigellosis (1 of 7)

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Case description

A 58 year-old female that 22 days previously was hospitalized, due to acute diarrhea with bloody and mucoid feces. Colonoscopy revealed mucosal inflammation with erythema (redness), edema (swelling), multiple ulcerations, granularity and loss of the normal vascular pattern. Stool culture grew Shigella Sonnei. The gross appearance resembles that of inflammatory bowel disease. Shigellosis is an acute bacterial infection caused by the genus Shigella, that produces an unspecific colitis, affecting preferably the rectosigmoid colon. "Bacilar dysentery ".

tags: czerwonka Shigella colonoscopy colon ulcer

related terms: jelito grube, kolonoskopia, wrzód

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