enterotoxin

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Etymology

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From entero- +‎ toxin.

Noun

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enterotoxin (plural enterotoxins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of several toxins produced by intestinal bacteria
    • 2012, Gerald T. Keusch, “Invasive Bacterial Diarrheas”, in Lincoln Chen, editor, Diarrhea and Malnutrition, page 54:
      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.
    • 2012, ‎Phillip Smith, ‎Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:
      A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

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