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What type of toxin is ciguatera toxin?
It is a biomicrobial toxin.
What is palytoxin?
A palytoxin is a variety of marine toxin which can cause ciguatera.
What is a palytoxin?
A palytoxin is a variety of marine toxin which can cause ciguatera.
What is a toxin?
A toxin is a poison that is produced by bacterial pathogens and damages cells.
Which neuromuscular disorder is caused by a bacterial toxin?
Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
What is an anatoxin?
An anatoxin is a bacterial toxin whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed.
Are there toxic proteins in vegetables?
Some proteins can indeed be toxic. However, note that it is rare for a protein to be toxic.Yes pathogens produce and secrete toxic proteins to invade their host. Bacterial toxin such as hemolysin A, neurotoxin, botulinum toxin, tetanus toxin, Shiga toxin are all proteins. They are strongly antigenic can elicit immune response.
If a toxin such as a bacterial toxin destroys ribosomes what cellular activity will be affected first?
protein syntheisis b/c DNA----> RNA----> proteins from ribosomes
When bacteria produce a disease by making a chemical that is released from the bacterial cell the chemical is known as what?
toxin
What is ciguatera?
Ciguatera (from the Spanish word for a poisonous snail) is a food-related illness that causes abdominal and neurological symptoms.
Types of sickness you can get from phytoplankton in Florida?
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning is a food poisoning caused by eating a certain fish, a marine finfish (e.g. barracuda), that has eaten certain algae. The algae make a toxin that is not so harmful for the fish, but it is to humans.
The development of virulent toxin producing bacterial strains due to the presence of a temperate phage can occur in?
specialized transduction
