| And at the NRL, Cy Tamanaha has had similar success detecting ricin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B and other potential bioweapons. |
| The important virulence factor of the bacteria is the enterotoxin responsible for gastroenteritis, the major enterotoxin being a cytolytic beta-haemolysin or aerolysin. |
| Secretory diarrhoea is a common disorder in developing countries, where pathogens that produce enterotoxin such as enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are endemic. |
| Bordello et al. were the first to demonstrate C. perfringens enterotoxin with high counts of toxigenic organisms in patients with diarrhoea after antibiotic treatment. |
| If large numbers of the organism are eaten in a food, they can sporulate in the gut and produce an enterotoxin which causes diarrhoea. |
| Once the bacterium infects the intestine, it secretes the enterotoxin from its external coating. |
