Like other members of the genus, S. boydii is a nonmotile, nonsporeforming, rod-shaped bacterium which can cause dysentery in humans through fecal-oral contamination.
Like other members of the *S. boydii* genus, this bacterium is nonmotile, does not form spores, and is rod-shaped. It can cause dysentery in humans through fecal-oral contamination.