See Also: Shiga(dictionary)
Shiga(tourism)
Shiga, Kiyoshi(medicine)
Shiga bacillus(medicine)
Shiga like toxin(medicine)
Shiga toxin(medicine)
Shiga Bank(finance)
Shiga hotels(tourism)
Shiga-Kruse bacillus(medicine)

Shiga (iou)



Shiga noun. E20.
[Kiyoshi Shiga (1870-1957), Japanese bacteriologist.]
Bacteriology. Used attrib. and in possess. to designate the Gram-negative bacillus Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1, which causes dysentery, and the toxin produced by it.