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Definition of Bacterial toxin

1. Noun. Any endotoxin or exotoxin formed in or elaborated by bacterial cells.

Medical Definition of Bacterial toxin

1. Any intracellular or extracellular toxin formed in or elaborated by bacterial cells. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacterial Toxin

Literary usage of Bacterial toxin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"... of some bacterial toxin. What toxin this was cannot be determined. The history of the case is meagre but affirms that the patient had pneumonia twice. ..."

2. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"Determine inheritance of resistance to seed transmission of common bacterial blight, leaf resistance to halo blight bacterial toxin, and of leaf pubescence ..."

3. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"T., Extracellular, a bacterial toxin elaborated by a microorganism and thrown off ... T., Intracellular, a bacterial toxin contained in the bodies of the ..."

4. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"Since they had been the first to demonstrate with certainty that an infectious disease was caused by a bacterial toxin, from their publication "the ..."

5. Bacteriology by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"This poisonous group or substance differs from a true bacterial toxin (exotoxin) in that it acts rapidly and without a latent period. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"important bacterial toxin has as yet been obtained in a pure condition, and, though many of them are probably of proteid nature, even this cannot be ..."

7. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"So far no example of the activation of a bacterial toxin is known, but the results mentioned point to the possibility of this occurring in some cases in the ..."

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