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SUMMARY: Investigations into the pathogenesis of diarrhoea have demonstrated that several different cell-free products of motile aeromonads show enterotoxic activity in suckling mouse, rat, and rabbit assay systems. The relative contributions made by separate cytotoxic and cytotonic activities in the mixture produced by culture remains unresolved. Using a modified rat jejunal perfusion assay, we have studied the effects of culture filtrates containing defined levels of haemolytic and cytotoxic activity and immunoreactivity for anticholera toxin. This material induced net water, potassium, and sodium loss with a rapid onset (>5 min) that was readily differentiated from the effects of purified cholera toxin (< 15 min). In filtrates containing up to 128 haemolytic and cytotoxic units of activity, the enterotoxic activity was neutralized by an anti-haemolysin/cytotoxin monoclonal antibody. No specific histological changes could be found in preparations perfused with enterotoxic material for up to 65 min. These findings indicate that the cytotoxic/haemolytic component of culture filtrate is the dominant enterotoxic activity.

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