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Toxin

Any poisonous substance a living thing produces as part of its metabolic or other natural process. That is, toxins themselves are not living things, but are produced by living things. Toxins are defined by the Biological Weapons Convention.
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Dissemination of the gene encoding exfoliative toxin of Staphylococcus intermedius among strains isolated from dogs during routine microbiological diagnostics.
STAPHYLO COCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS ISOLATION FROM CANINE, BACTERIAL COLONIZATION AND CLINICAL PICTURE IN BALB/C MOUSE MODEL
Staphylococcal exfoliative toxin B specifically cleaves desmoglein 1.
Spondylodiscitis and bacteremia due to Staphylococcus hyicus in an immunocompetent man
Complete nucleotide sequence of Staphylococcus aureus exfoliative toxin B plasmid and identification of a novel ADP-ribosyltransferase, EDIN-C.
Relacion entre superantigenicidad, resistencia antimicrobiana y origen de aislamientos de staphylococcus aureus
aureus Forward primer 24 (28) exfoliative toxin B, GenBank Reverse primer 26 accession no.
Mediator probe PCR: a novel approach for detection of real-time PCR based on label-free primary probes and standardized secondary universal fluorogenic reporters
Mutational analysis of the superantigen staphylococcal exfoliative toxin A (ETA).
Produccion de citocinas y oxido nitrico en uno paciente adulto con sindrome de la piel escaldada estafilococica
Sequences specific for sea to see, seg to sei, eta, etb, and tst, which encode staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEA to SEE, and SEG to SEI), exfoliative toxins (ETA and ETB), and toxic shock syndrome toxin-l, respectively, were detected by using methods described by Jarraud et al.
Community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children, Taiwan
Unlike previously described CA-MRSA strains, this strain does not harbor the PVL or exfoliative toxin genes, and it displays a multidrug resistance phenotype.
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Canada
Detection of genes for enterotoxins, exfoliative toxins, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 in Staphylococcus aureus by the polymerase chain reaction.
Rapid screening of pyogenic Staphylococcus aureus for confirmation of genus and species, methicillin resistance and virulence factors by using two novel multiplex PCR
Exfoliative Toxins (ETs A and B) are made by certain strains of S.
Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome in neonate

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