Bacterial toxins and detection methods.
The diagnosis of infectious disease has been carried out by detecting causative organisms from patient's clinical materials using culture methods so far. However, the method for rapid analysis and diagnosis has been changed by development of advanced methods such as immunological, molecular biological and genetic method. Especially, as a mass outbreak of entrohaemorrhagic E. coli (O157), which is reguired to detect toxins as well as bacteria itself, microbiologists and clinicians recognized the significance of rapid analysis of bacterial toxins. On the diagnosis for the state of disease and decision for the way of the therapy, the rapid detection of bacterial toxin is a significant indispensable tests. From these point of view, introduction of rapid analysis into a laboratory, not using cell culture or experimental animals, is strongly required. Here I describe a various kind of bacterial toxins and their detection methods.
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Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, 2-15 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000032:analysis*; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000032:analysis; D005098:Exotoxins / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008722:Methods
D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004731:Endotoxins; D005098:Exotoxins