A 6-year-old child from rural India presents with acute bloody diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps for 3 days. Stool culture grows a gram-negative rod that is non-motile, non-lactose fermenting, and oxidase negative. Which Shigella species is the most common cause of dysentery in India?

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