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enterotoxin

noun

Etymology

From entero- + toxin.

  1. derived from toxicum
  2. prefixed as enterotoxin — “entero + toxin”

Definitions

  1. Any of several toxins produced by intestinal bacteria

    • An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.
    • A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for enterotoxin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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