a toxin that originates in the intestine, causing vomiting and diarrhoea
enterotoxin in American English
(ˌentərouˈtɑksɪn)
noun
Pathology
a toxic substance produced by certain bacteria that on ingestion causes violent vomiting and diarrhea
Word origin
[1935–40; entero- + toxin]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rhodesian ridgeback, complementation, fluorocarbon, prime mover, roometteentero- is a combining form meaning “intestine,” used in the formation of compound words.Other words that use the affix entero- include: enterobacteria, enterohepatitis, enterology, enteropneust, enterostomy
Examples of 'enterotoxin' in a sentence
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Enterotoxin genes were found in 53.13% of the strains.
Zuoyong Zhou, Mengsi Zhang, Hexian Li, Haoyue Yang, Xiaoxia Li, Xinyue Song, ZhiyingWang 2017, 'Prevalence and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from goatsin Chongqing, China', BMC Veterinary Researchhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12917-017-1272-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
None of the isolates were positive for beta, epsilon, iota and enterotoxin genes.
Das, A., Mazumder, Y., Dutta, B. K., Kumar, A., Selvi S. 2009, 'Diagnosis of Acute Diarrhea in Pigs and Piglets in Meghalaya, India', Malaysian Journal of Microbiologyhttp://web.usm.my/mjm/issues/vol5no1/research7.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The registered enterotoxin titres can be considered as the diagnostic indices.
Y. S. Sukharev 2011, 'Identification of the thermostable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli in calves withcolibacteriosis', Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu: Serìâ Bìologìâ, Medicinahttp://medicine.dp.ua/index.php/med/article/view/104. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
At sub-inhibitory concentration, it decreases the expression of biofilm-and enterotoxin-related genes.
Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Sung-Won Chae, Gi Jung Im, Jae-Woo Chung, Jae-Jun Song 2015, 'Eugenol: a phyto-compound effective against methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitiveStaphylococcus aureus clinical strain biofilms.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4364371?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The presence of coagulase (coa) and enterotoxin (se) genes was investigated by polymerase chain reaction.
Tiane Martin de Moura, Fabrício Souza Campos, Pedro Alves d'Azevedo, Sueli TeresinhaVan Der Sand, Ana Cláudia Franco, Jeverson Frazzon, Ana Paula Guedes Frazzon 2012, 'Prevalence of enterotoxin-encoding genes and antimicrobial resistance in coagulase-negativeand coagulase-positive Staphylococcus isolates from black pudding', Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822012000500008&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
None of the isolates were found positive for beta, epsilon, iota and enterotoxin genes.
Adarsh Jain, Arunava Das 2012, 'GENOTYPING OF CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS FROM FRESH WATER FISH AND FISH PICKLES', Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Scienceshttp://www.jmbfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jmbfs-0153-das.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In 24.6% of the studied isolates, genes for enterotoxin production were detected.
Fanny Herrera A, Jesús Santos B 2015, 'Enterotoxigenic Genes in strains of Staphylococcus spp., isolated from cheese madein Pamplona-Colombia', Revista MVZ Cordobahttp://revistas.unicordoba.edu.co/index.php/revistamvz/article/view/77. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The most frequent enterotoxin genes were sea (53.3%), seg (64.5%) and sei (67.5%).
Luiza Pinheiro, Carla Ivo Brito, Adilson de Oliveira, Patrícia Yoshida Faccioli Martins,Valéria Cataneli Pereira, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha 2015, 'Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus haemolyticus: Molecular Detection ofCytotoxin and Enterotoxin Genes', Toxinshttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/7/9/3688. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Changes in intracellular calcium indicated that the mycotoxins increased enterotoxin and pore-forming toxin activity.
Luke Masson, Alberto Mazza, Gretchen Kuldau, Jean Juba, Danica Baines, Mark Sumarah 2013, 'Aflatoxin, Fumonisin and Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections in Calvesand the Effectiveness of Celmanax®/Dairyman's Choice™ Applications to Eliminate Morbidityand Mortality Losses', Toxinshttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/5/10/1872. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)