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Shiga toxin
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English
Alternative forms
shigatoxin
Etymology
en Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga =, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae species.
Noun
Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.
en eponyms
en Toxicology