Many bacterial toxins have the ability to enter target cells, most often by using physiological endocytosis pathways, and to modify a specific intracellular target (Table 3). According to the ...

A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or force on an area of a nerve, causing it to send pain signals to the brain. Most cases are mild, and a person can often treat them at home. In this ...

The maggots managed the cleanliness. Patient survival was a team effort: the maggots' removal of necrotic tissue and the bacterium’s antimicrobial exotoxin helped save lives. Until a 2001 high school ...

This case represents a rare fulminant course of fried-rice associated food poisoning in an immunocompetent person due to pre-formed exotoxin produced by Bacillus cereus, with severe manifestations of ...

Thus, in the present study, we aimed to generate a new class of therapeutics based on a recombinant single-domain antibody (sdAb) immunotoxin derived from the PE38 Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A.

Table 1. Microbiology and antimicrobial therapy of bite infections.