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    Structure and Activity of Endotoxins

    Gram-negative bacteria comprise a great number of pathogenic microorganisms causing a variety of diseases in mammals, including man. Many of the clinical symptoms observed following an infection with gram-nega...

    S. Hauschildt, W. Brabetz, A. B. Schromm, L. Hamann, P. Zabel in Bacterial Protein Toxins (2000)

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    Bacterial Endotoxin: Chemical Constitution, Biological Recognition, Host Response, and Immunological Detoxification

    The discovery of endotoxin dates from the late nineteenth century when Richard Pfeiffer, then working in Berlin, characterized endotoxins as heat-stable and cell-associated molecules (Westphal et al. 1977), thus ...

    E. T. Rietschel, H. Brade, O. Holst, L. Brade in Pathology of Septic Shock (1996)