Cholera Toxins

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chaudhuri, Keya (Editor), Chatterjee, S. N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Pharmacology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Food Science.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Vibrio cholerae, the causative organism of the disease Cholera, colonizes the small intestine and produces several different toxins among which the enterotoxin, or more widely known as cholera toxin (CT), happens to be the major virulence determinant that is responsible for the diarrheal syndrome. T...