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Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 16, Problem 8SA
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The examples of a neurotoxin, an enterotoxin, and a cytotoxin.
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Toxins are the poisonous substance that is produced by bacteria that can kill or adversely affect the other organisms. Toxins are of mainlytwotypes based on the secretion: exotoxins, which are secreted outside the body of pathogen and endotoxins, which are secreted inside the body of pathogens. A neurotoxin, enterotoxin, and cytotoxins are the examples of exotoxins.
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