Meaning of endotoxin | Babel Free

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Any toxin secreted by a microorganism and released into the surrounding environment only when it dies.

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“It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.”

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