Carl Olaf Sonne
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Carl Olaf Sonne was a Danish bacteriologist and parasitologist who discovered the shigella sonnei
strain of shigella
bacterium.
Shigella sonnei
Shigella sonnei is a species of Shigella. Together with Shigella flexneri, it is responsible for 90% of shigellosis. Shigella sonnei is named for the Danish bacteriologist Carl Olaf Sonne....
strain of shigella
Shigella
Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, nonspore forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria closely related to Escherichia coli and Salmonella. The causative agent of human shigellosis, Shigella causes disease in primates, but not in other mammals. It is only naturally found in humans and apes. During...
bacterium.