26 Facts About Microbial toxins

Microbial toxins are toxins produced by micro-organisms, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, dinoflagellates, and viruses.

Many microbial toxins promote infection and disease by directly damaging host tissues and by disabling the immune system.

However, microbial toxins have important uses in medical science and research.

Currently, new methods of detecting bacterial Microbial toxins are being developed to better isolate and understand these toxin.

ExoMicrobial toxins are generated and actively secreted; endoMicrobial toxins remain part of the bacteria.

ExoMicrobial toxins are typically proteins with enzymatic activity that interfere with host cells triggering the symptoms associated with the disease.

ExoMicrobial toxins are relatively specific to the bacteria that produce it; for example, diphtheria toxin is only produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria and is required for the diphtheria disease.

ExoMicrobial toxins are typically proteins with enzymatic activity that interfere with host cells triggering the symptoms associated with the disease.

ExoMicrobial toxins are relatively specific to the bacteria that produce it; for example, diphtheria toxin is only produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria and is required for the diphtheria disease.

Additional classifications used to describe Microbial toxins include enterotoxin, neurotoxin, leukocidin or hemolysin which indicate where in the host's body the toxin targets.

Lethal Microbial toxins refers to the group of Microbial toxins that are the obvious agents responsible for death associated with the infection.

Clostridial Microbial toxins are widespread and aid in the production of many diseases in humans and other organisms.

Clostridial Microbial toxins are known to aid in gastrointestinal diseases and there is a wide range of mechanisms that clostridial Microbial toxins take to invade or enter the cell of the host.

Pore forming bacterial Microbial toxins are common and have a very interesting way of entering or invading the host's cell.

The mechanism that clostridial Microbial toxins follow includes clostridia forming pores and then the pores inserting themselves into the cell membrane of cells.

Clostridial Microbial toxins have the ability to damage or alter the cell membrane damaging the extracellular matrix of the organism.

Botulinum neuroMicrobial toxins are the causative agents of the deadly food poisoning disease botulism, and could pose a major biological warfare threat due to their extreme toxicity and ease of production.

Botulinum neuroMicrobial toxins are protein neuroMicrobial toxins that are produced by the bacteria Clostridium.

Examples of toxins produced by strains of S aureus include enterotoxins that cause food-poisoning, exfoliative toxins that cause scalded skin syndrome, and toxic-shock syndrome toxin that underlies toxic shock syndrome.

The term shiga-like toxins was previously used to further distinguish the shiga toxins produced by E coli, but nowadays, they are collectively referred to as shiga toxins.

The adsorption is passive, and the bioMicrobial toxins adhere to porous, resin filled sachets, or SPATT bags where they are then physically removed and examined.

Many well known bacterial Microbial toxins are produced from specific strains of the bacteria species that have obtained toxigenicity through lysogenic conversion, pseudolysogeny, or horizontal gene transfer.

MycoMicrobial toxins can be harmful because they can cause disease and death in humans and animals.

MycoMicrobial toxins are synthesized by different types of moulds and are built by a wide group of Microbial toxins.

MycoMicrobial toxins have a low molecular weight compound that is usually less than 1000 grams per mol.

The T-2 toxin, Type A, and DON, Type B, are major mycoMicrobial toxins that are responsible for toxicity in humans and animals.