Shiga toxin
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IntroductionIntroduction
Shiga Toxins are a family of AB5 toxins which cause dysentery in humans. They are primarily secreted by Shiga toxin-encoding Escherichia coli (STEC), notably by the 0157:H7 strain. The stx gene is not endogenous to these strains, but introduced by environmental prophages of the lambda bacteriophage family and incorporated into the E. Coli genome1.
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1 Bacteriophage control of Shiga Toxin 1 production and release by Escherichia coli