Handbook of Natural Toxins
Publisher: CRC
Published: August 5, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780824778408
Subjects: Medical toxicology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Bacteriology; Toxins; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Toxicology; Food Science; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Science / Microbiology; Bacterial Toxins
First sentence: Despite the fact that Koch predicted, in the 1880s, that cholera is a toxin-mediated disease, the cholera enterotoxin and its relatives were discovered only relatively recently, in comparison with such classical toxins as diphtheria, tetanus, and botulinus, whose existence was known before the turn of the century.