Assertion: polysaccharide's activity | /r/CapableOf | term endotoxin
Facets:
value: by richard friedrich johannes pfeiffer
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The toxic activity of LPS was first discovered and termed "endotoxin" by Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, who distinguished between exotoxins, which he classified as a toxin that is released by bacteria into the surrounding environment, and endotoxins, which he considered to be a toxin kept "within" the bacterial cell and released only after destruction of the bacterial cell