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Dysentery is a term used to describe painful intestinal inflammation and severe diarrhea with blood or mucus in the stools.1 There can be several causes of dysentery, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, depending on how narrow or broad your definition is. Often, it is restricted to those organisms that cause severe illness of epidemic proportions.
Typically, the public health and medical community restricts the definition to three causes.2 They are:
- Shigella dysenteriae, a bacteria. This bacilliary (bacterial) dysentery is also know as shigellosis.
- Entamoeba histolytica, a parasite know as a protozoan (amoebas). This amebic dysentery is also known as amebiasis.
- Balantidium coli, a protozoa. This balantidial dystentary is also know as balantidiasis. (Some also consider the protozoa Giardia lamblia, and Cryptosporidium parvumas dysenteric as well.3)
References:
1. "Dysentery", World Health Organization, web page:
2. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 16th Edition, Washington DC: American Public Health Association, 1995, A.S. Benenson (editor).
3. "Dysentery", The Free Dictionary, web page:
Dysentery is typically the result of unsanitary water containing microorganisms which damage the intestinal lining.
parisite spread grow and divide there selfs attacking the lining of intestens
Viral dysentery, which is sometimes called traveler's diarrhea or viral gastroenteritis, is caused by several families of viruses
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Fecal-oral route as an effect of bad hygiene or contaminated water.
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The prefix of dysentery is dy. The suffix of dysentery is sentery. Dysentery is an inflammation of the colon or intestines.
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explosive diarrhea
Where did dysentery exist?
Dysentery exists in the small intestine
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What is a sentence that has the word dysentery in it?
They all suffered from dysentery after drinking the dirty water.
