A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

A person with CF cannot contract cholera, because the toxin cannot open the chloride channels in the small intestine. Carriers of CF enjoy the mixed blessing of a balanced polymorphism.

You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of ...

A cholera outbreak in Angola has killed at least 108 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said Tuesday, ...

Vibrio cholerae releases toxins in the intestines, causing profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration. In regions where access to clean water and proper sanitation is limited, cholera ...

They developed a genetically modified strain of rice plant purpose-designed to generate part of a protein that is used during the absorption of cholera toxin by the intestinal tract but is ...

Toxins Crossing the Intestinal Barrier & Targeting a Remote Organ or Tissue Bacterial toxins produced in the digestive tract, in addition to their effects on the gastrointestinal mucosa ...