Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Data about Bacillus cereus different enterotoxins including hemolysin (HBL), nonhemolytic enterotoxin (NHE), enterotoxin (T), and emesis-inducing thermostable enterotoxin (ETE) are summarized in the article. Information about synthesis of different diarrhea-inducing and emesis-inducing enterotoxins, methods of their purification, structure, functions, and mechanisms of action are presented. Commercial kits for identification of B.cereus enterotoxins causing food-associated diarrhea are listed. nZh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2007, No. 2, P. 105—110