1. Zum Nachweis der Shiga-like Toxine vonEscherichia coli mit Hilfe des MTT-Zellkulturtests
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Manfred Gareis, Johann Bauer, Anton Mayr, and Stefan Hörmansdorfer
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biology ,Toxin ,General Chemistry ,medicine.disease_cause ,biology.organism_classification ,Biochemistry ,Enterobacteriaceae ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Microbiology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Tissue culture ,chemistry ,medicine ,Bioassay ,Formazan ,Cytotoxicity ,Escherichia coli ,Bacteria ,Food Science ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Tissue culture cells' metabolism and viability are measured by the mitochondrial reduction rate of a yellow tetrazolium salt (MTT) to blue formazan crystalls in the MTT-bioassay. Thus the MTT-bioassay is a standardizable and reproducible bioassay for measuring cytotoxicity or cytostimulation. It is shown that the MTT-bioassay is also very suitable for determining bacterial cytotoxins using Escherichia coli's Shiga-like toxins as example. 177 strains ofE.coli, isolated from carcasses and organs of cattle, are classified biochemically and tested for cytotoxin production by means of the MTT-bioassay. One of these strains is recognized as producer of Shiga-like toxin 2. 4 Enterohemolysin-producing strains ofE.coli are cultivated from a feces sample of a diarrhoeic nubian ibex and identified as Shiga-like toxin 1 producers by help of the MTT-bioassay.
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- 1995
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