English Explanatory Dictionary

Shiga toxin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.

Word forms

Shiga toxin Shiga toxins shigatoxin

Etymology

Named after Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.

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