Toxic shock syndrome is caused by infection with the bacteria Staphylococcus ... Staphylococcal enterotoxin B also commonly causes the syndrome and is the second most common exotoxin involved.

A new vaccine has the potential to treat and prevent toxic shock caused by invasive streptococcal disease, which kills more than 160,000 people every year. When ISD occurs, some strains can make ...

Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first known toxin of the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), an exotoxin that had gone undetected for 132 years.

M. tuberculosis, which kills more than 1 million people a year, uses the ESX-4 type VII secretion system to transports its potent exotoxin. Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the ...

We previously reported that the frequency of TCRBV2 and TCRBV6S5-bearing T-cells was high in patients in the acute phase of Kawasaki disease (KD) and that streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin C (SPE-C ...

This is the first report of an environmental reservoir of a bacterial exotoxin gene harbored in an atypical host in the environment. Screening bacterial isolates from the environment via sea ...