ETEC = enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; LT = heat-labile toxin; ST = heat-stable toxin. *Data is derived from a review of publications, from 1966 to 1999, issued by the World Health Organization ...

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The DUKORAL is a drinkable vaccine that helps prevent diarrhea caused by heat-labile toxin-producing ETEC, as well as cholera. The IXCHIQ is a single-dose, live-attenuated vaccine for the ...

The toxin is post-translationally proteolyzed to form a 1,285 amino acid di-chain molecule in which the two chains, ~50,000 M r and ~100,000 M r, remain linked by a disulfide bond 1. The protein ...