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Meaning of enterotoxin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Any of several toxins produced by intestinal bacteria

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Examples

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

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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