Bacillary Dysentery
Bacillary Dysentery :
Medicine. An acute, severe, intestinal disease due to the Shigella bacillus, type 1, characterised by bloody stools and fever, associated with poor personal hygiene and sanitation in crowded closed communities (ships, refugee camps, jails). Especially frequent in children and often occurring as sudden outbreaks. Transmitted via the faecal route or water-borne through contaminated water supply, either directly through hand contact or indirectly through contaminated food. The term dysentery is often used in a general sense for many non-specific cases of gastro-enteritis and diarrhoea
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