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Definition of Enterotoxin
1. Noun. A cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa.
Definition of Enterotoxin
1. Noun. (biology) Any of several toxins produced by intestinal bacteria ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enterotoxin
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Enterotoxin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Enterotoxin
Literary usage of Enterotoxin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions by Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw (1983)
"Staples, DJ, Asher, SE, and Giannella, RA Purification and characterization of
heat-stable enterotoxin produced by a strain of £. coli pathogenic for man. ..."
2. From Test Tube to Patient: New Drug Development in the United States by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Her experiment was sent on the shuttle to find out how T-cells from mouse bone
marrow respond to the bacteria staphylo- coccal enterotoxin B in zero gravity ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"enterotoxin. Toxins are sometimes divided into exotoxins and ... dysentery produces
an enterotoxin and a neurotoxin, etc. Very few of the bacterial poisons ..."
4. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"... meningitis, endocarditis, mastitis, bacteremia, various abscesses, food
poisoning (via enterotoxin), urogenital infections and toxic shock syndrome. ..."
5. National Shellfish Sanitation Program: Sanitation of Shellfish Growing Areasby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... and Kanagawa positive or negative; and > Staphylococcus aureus - positive for
staphylococcal enterotoxin or when the viable MPN count is 10000 per gram. ..."
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