Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers look after animals in laboratories, animal hospitals, and clinics. They care for the animals by performing routine tasks under the supervision of scientists, veterinarians, and veterinary technologists and technicians.
Dysentery is an inflammation of the intestine causing diarrhea with blood. Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and rectal tenesmus (a feeling of incomplete defecation).
Bacillus â A rod-shaped bacterium. One common type of dysentery is known as bacillary dysentery because it is caused by a bacillus. Enterotoxin â A type of harmful protein released by bacteria and other disease agents that affects the tissues lining the intestines.