Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 35.2, Problem 4RIA
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The exotoxins are produced by Gram-positive bacteria that are heat labile and soluble. While the bacteria are growing in a medium or any surrounding, they produce exotoxin in their surroundings. The exotoxins have the capacity to move from one infection site to another site to cause infections.

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