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Yes. Bacteria do produce toxins. Usually gram positive bacteria produce exo-toxins and gram negative bacteria produce endo-toxins.
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Why bacteria produce toxins?
Bacteria produce toxins as a byproduct. They are formed when the bacteria produce energy for themselves by changing one substance into another, and in some cases, there are byproducts, some of which can be toxins.
What type of microbe produces bacitracin?
Bacteria and Viruses both produce toxins
What cause bacteria to produse toxins?
What causes bacteria to produce toxins is metabolism. The toxins are not intended to be poisons. They are like the exhaust of a car, they are the biproducts of their body processes of life. So in other words, it's bacterial pee and poo.
Some bacteria produce harmfull posions called?
"toxins", copy or type at Answers.com
Why are botulism bacteria sometimes able to produce toxins when they have been heated?
Because when the heat hits the botulism it turn into toxins to form health.
Is bacteria a posionous substance produced by plants animals or microbes?
No. A toxin is what you are thinking about. Bacteria are microbes and some produce toxins and some do not.
What is bacteria toxin infection?
When harmful bacteria enter your body and produce toxins, an infection occurs. This can damage tissues and disable bodily functions.
What makes some bacteria harmful?
some bacteria produce toxins in their metabolism which is harmful for humans. if you have used antibiotics, the normal, good, bacteria that live in your body can be replaced by a pathogen, which will make you sick.
What is botulism what it causes?
Botulism is a type of food poisoning. What causes it is the bacteria living on our food that produce toxins that can kill humans.
Do viruses produce toxins?
nope only bacteria
Can bacteria causes disease?
Less then 1 percent cause disease. Disease causing bacteria produce toxins- powerful chemicals that damage cells and make you ill.
Bacteria that make you sick by producing toxins?
Toxigenesis, or the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying mechanism by which many bacterial pathogens produce disease. Examples of this are: Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Clostridium tetani, Clostridium perfringens and Streptococcus pyogenes.
