enterotoxin

English

Etymology

From entero- +‎ toxin.

Noun

enterotoxin (plural enterotoxins)

1. (biochemistry) Any of several toxins produced by intestinal bacteria
   • 2012, Gerald T. Keusch, “Invasive Bacterial Diarrheas”, in Lincoln Chen, editor, Diarrhea and Malnutrition, page 54:

     An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.

   • 2012, ‎Phillip Smith, ‎Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:

     A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

Derived terms

• enterotoxigenic

 

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腸毒素／肠毒素 (coeng⁴ duk⁶ sou³)

  Mandarin: 腸毒素／肠毒素 (zh) (chángdúsù)

• Indonesian: enterotoksin (id)
• Italian: enterotossina (it) f
• Japanese: エンテロトキシン (enterotokishin)
• Kazakh: ішек уытты (ışek uytty)
• Korean: 엔테로톡신 (enterotoksin), 장내독소(腸內毒素) (jangnaedokso), 장독소(腸毒素) (jangdokso)
• Thai: เอนเทอโรทอกซิน