Researchers, setting their sights on Shiga toxin (player in the current E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce) and ricin (a bioterrorism agent), have now identified potential protective strategies.

The Shiga toxin-producing bacteria thought to have come from contaminated lettuce has been described as a growing threat by a ...

USDA Agricultural Research Service Reuven Rasooly and his colleagues have demonstrated the system is as effective in measuring Shiga toxin activity as a fluorometer. Reuven Rasooly, a chemist at the ...

The effect of Shiga toxins (Stxs) produced by Escherichia coli on human lung epithelial cells was investigated. Specific antibodies for Stxs positively stained lung tissue from a patient who died of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Meridian Bioscience has announced FDA 510(k) clearance of its Curian Shiga Toxin assay intended for detection ...

Antibiotics usually save lives—but against some bacteria, they can make things worse. That’s the case with the Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli, where bacterial death releases a flood of a ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a germ that occurs naturally in the gut of mammals and birds, as well as in the human intestinal flora. However, certain E. coli types can cause severe diarrhea in humans ...

Scientists identify a molecule that can bind to a lethal subtype of the bacterial Shiga toxin, suppressing its toxic effects A strain of E. coli bacteria called enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a germ that occurs naturally in the gut of mammals and birds, as well as in the human intestinal flora. However, certain E. coli types can cause severe diarrhea in humans ...

So Shiga toxin's stealthy suppression of the immune system may have a link to all the bloody drama that ensues. Spurred on by this exciting observation, they conducted a series of detailed molecular ...

Min Dong, PhD, and his lab are world experts in toxins and how to combat them. They've figured out how Clostridium difficile's most potent toxin gets into cells and zeroed in on the first new ...