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Clostridium botulinum produces a toxin that causes paralysis at high enough quantities. It does this by blocking the release of acetylcholine thus stopping nerve impulses.
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Is anthrax poisoning a disease?
Anthrax is a disease caused by the microorganism called Bacillus anthracis. This bacteria produces a poisonous toxin (thus anthrax poisoning is caused by a toxin produced by the bacteria during the course of infection). Disease: Anthrax Cause: B. anthracis
Why do the crystals of Bt toxin produced by some bacteria do not kill the bacteria themselves?
toxin is inactive: In bacteria, the toxin is present in an inactive form, called prototoxin, which gets converted into active form when it enters the body of an insect
What is a poison a protein produced by certain bacteria animals and plants?
toxin
A non-living substance produced by living plants and animals that may be used as a biological agent is called?
Toxin
Is bacteria a posionous substance produced by plants animals or microbes?
No. A toxin is what you are thinking about. Bacteria are microbes and some produce toxins and some do not.
Is botulism a virus bacteria or a protist?
No, botulism is the disease caused by the ingestion of the toxin formed during the growth of the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
Is anthrax poisoning a disease?
Anthrax is a disease caused by the microorganism called Bacillus anthracis. This bacteria produces a poisonous toxin (thus anthrax poisoning is caused by a toxin produced by the bacteria during the course of infection). Disease: Anthrax Cause: B. anthracis
What causes botulisum?
Botulism is caused by a toxin produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Botulism can be contracted by eating infected foods or in wounds such as those caused by injecting drugs.
Why do the crystals of Bt toxin produced by some bacteria do not kill the bacteria themselves?
toxin is inactive: In bacteria, the toxin is present in an inactive form, called prototoxin, which gets converted into active form when it enters the body of an insect
What is a poison a protein produced by certain bacteria animals and plants?
toxin
What is a bacteriotoxin?
A bacteriotoxin is a toxin produced by a bacterium, or a material which is toxic to bacteria.
What is Erythrogenic toxin?
A toxin or agent produced by the scarlet fever-causing bacteria that causes the skin to turn red
A non-living substance produced by living plants and animals that may be used as a biological agent is called?
Toxin
Is bacteria a posionous substance produced by plants animals or microbes?
No. A toxin is what you are thinking about. Bacteria are microbes and some produce toxins and some do not.
What is the Botulism disease categorized as?
Botulism is an intoxication, whose vector is the botulinum toxin. The toxin is a protein produced in anaerobic conditions. The bacteria which produces the toxin is called Clostridium botulinum, a large anaerobic gram-positive bacillus. Seven serological varieties of the bacterium is named from A to G. All these types of bacteria produces simillar symptoms : acetylcholine is not released from the motor nerve endings, so causing paralysis, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, diarreha or constipation, respiratory difficulty.
What is aflotoxin?
A food poison, caused by the toxin produced from the yellow mold, aspergillus flavus.
What is a cholorea?
cholera is a disease caused by a bacteria that realeases a toxin in the intestine and causes severe diarreah
