PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF SHIGA TOXIN AND TOXOID
- 1 August 1946
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 84 (2), 143-156
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.84.2.143
Abstract
1. Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga) can, under the proper cultural conditions, produce a soluble toxin which is independent of the specific somatic polysaccharide antigen. A method is described for the rapid production of this toxin by an avirulent R variant of this organism.Keywords
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