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enterotoxins

enterotoxins is the plural of enterotoxin.

Meaning of enterotoxin

Noun

enterotoxin (plural enterotoxins)

  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.2012, Gerald T. Keusch, “Invasive Bacterial Diarrheas”, in Lincoln Chen, editor, Diarrhea and Malnutrition, page 54

Questions about enterotoxins

What is enterotoxins the plural of?
Enterotoxins is the plural of enterotoxin.

Words near enterotoxins in the dictionary

  1. enterotoxicity
  2. enterotoxicosis
  3. enterotoxigenic
  4. enterotoxigenicity
  5. enterotoxin
  6. enterotoxins
  7. enterotoxogenic
  8. enterotransporter
  9. enterotransporters
  10. enterotrophic
  11. enterotropic

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