Enterotoxin

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From entero- + toxin.

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