A 6-year-old child in Mumbai presents with acute dysentery (bloody mucoid stools, tenesmus, fever). Culture yields a gram-negative rod that is non-motile, glucose-fermenting, non-lactose-fermenting, and produces a positive Shiga toxin PCR. Which feature best distinguishes Shigella dysenteriae type 1 from other Shigella species in this case?

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