Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous substance secreted by a microorganism and released into the medium in which it grows.
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- noun Any
toxin secreted by amicroorganism into the surrounding environment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a toxin that is secreted by microorganisms into the surrounding medium
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Examples
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With that lead, Moeller's team established that the Pfiesteria cell can produce a copper-containing exotoxin -- a toxin produced external to the cell itself -- possibly as a mechanism to protect itself from copper in the environment.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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If you were real, you'd never know it was going to hit ... or if that last sausage you'd gobbled had the staphylococcal exotoxin in it.
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Alarmingly, since the 1980s S. pyogenes has been identified to be globally responsible for a class of emerging, life threatening, invasive infections including the "flesh-eating" disease, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and the excretion of the pyrogenic exotoxin-associated toxic shock syndrome
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael D. L. Suits et al. 2010
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The experiments identified a previously uncharacterized gene as essential for intoxication by diphtheria toxin and exotoxin A toxicity, and a cell surface protein needed for cytolethal distending toxin toxicity.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The lethal effect of B. anthracis are due to an exotoxin system
Recently Uploaded Slideshows crisbertc 2009
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It is caused by Staphylococcus aureus Phage Type 71 due to liberation of the exotoxin exfoliation.
Medindia Health News 2009
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Slide 64: Example-Cholera is called by a bacterial exotoxin that causes the human gut to release chloride ions in to the gut and water follows by osmosis
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The experiments identified a previously uncharacterized gene as essential for intoxication by diphtheria toxin and exotoxin A toxicity, and a cell surface protein needed for cytolethal distending toxin toxicity.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Furthermore, insights into the actions of PaCD and eukaryotic neutral CDases as an exotoxin and mediators of sphingolipid signaling are also
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue T. Inoue 2009
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D.M. tuberculosis produce an exotoxin and contain an endotoxin in its cell wall
Recently Uploaded Slideshows crisbertc 2009
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