Classification of dysentery bacteria: (Decisions of the Committee on the Nomenclature of the Pathogenic Bacteria and Viruses of the Ministry of Health of the USSR)

The decisions of the Soviet Committee on Nomenclature report the steps taken to integrate the provisional Soviet classification scheme of the dysentery bacteria with the proposals of the International Subcommittee on the Enterobacteriaceae. The relationships of the species of the genus Shigella in the two schemata are analyzed. A scheme of Shigella classification to be used in the USSR is presented.