| If large numbers of the organism are eaten in a food, they can sporulate in the gut and produce an enterotoxin which causes diarrhoea. |
| The important virulence factor of the bacteria is the enterotoxin responsible for gastroenteritis, the major enterotoxin being a cytolytic beta-haemolysin or aerolysin. |
| Secretory diarrhoea is a common disorder in developing countries, where pathogens that produce enterotoxin such as enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are endemic. |
| Pathogenic O1 and O139 V. cholerae have the ability to produce cholera toxin, a type of enterotoxin that affects intestinal cells. |
| The streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins together with the staphylococcal enterotoxin build a large family of bacterial superantigens. |
| And at the NRL, Cy Tamanaha has had similar success detecting ricin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B and other potential bioweapons. |
