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noun
Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.
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History
Named after Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.
