0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Is staphylococcal toxic syndrome due to preformed toxin?
No.
What is preformed enterotoxin?
enterotoxins are toxins that target the intestines (entron). preformed enterotoxins (ex. cholera toxin) are formed in the bacteria prior to infection, ie. the toxin is being produced regardless of being in the human body or not.
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.
What is preform?
enterotoxins are toxins that target the intestines (entron). preformed enterotoxins (ex. cholera toxin) are formed in the bacteria prior to infection, ie. the toxin is being produced regardless of being in the human body or not.
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
The development of virulent toxin producing bacterial strains due to the presence of a temperate phage can occur in?
specialized transduction
How does bacterial diseases affect the body?
through the production of toxin, by an allergic reaction of the body to the bacteria and/or by destruction of normal tissues.
What r bacterial aggressins?
bacterial agressins are molecules that the bacteria "shoot" at phagocytic molecules. Some agressin molecules include streptolysin O, leukocidin (staphylococcus), extoxin A, adenylate cyclase, and anthrax toxin EF
