toxigenic diarrhea

toxigenic diarrhea
the watery, voluminous diarrhea caused by enterotoxins from enterotoxigenic bacteria such as Vibrio cholerae and ETEC strains of Escherichia coli; the enterotoxin is the primary pathogen and the bacteria do not invade the intestinal mucosa.

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