Shigella is a genus of gram-negative, facultative aerobic, nonspore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria genetically closely related to E. coli. The genus is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who first discovered it in 1897
Shigella is a bacterium that is a pathogen that affects the intestine of humans and some kinds of which cause an inflammatory disease especially in the colon. I hope this helped!
