Shiga toxin

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Named for Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.

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Shiga toxin (plural Shiga toxins)

  1. Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.
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