The first effective treatment, atoxyl, an arsenic-based drug developed by Paul Ehrlich and Kiyoshi Shiga, was introduced in 1910, but blindness was a serious side effect.
These eponyms are shared with Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga (1871-1957).
Ōtsu, Shiga | Shiga toxin | Shiga | Kiyoshi Shiga | Kiyoshi Maekawa | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Azuchi, Shiga | Kiyoshi Oka | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Hikone, Shiga | Takashima District, Shiga | Shigaraki, Shiga | Naoya Shiga | Minakuchi, Shiga | Kiyoshi Nakamura | Kiyoshi Hikawa | Kiyoshi Aki | Imazu, Shiga | Hino, Shiga | Harry Kiyoshi Ishisaka | Biwa, Shiga |
The species was named after the American physician Simon Flexner, in addition to the Japanese physician Kiyoshi Shiga, who researched the cause of dysentery.