background : an accurate and prompt diagnosis of bacterial arthritis is essential for earlier treatment and a good outcome. superantigens produced by staph. aureus are among the most lethal toxins. the paper objective was identification of common bacterial antigens and s.aureus superantigens in synovial fluid (sf) of children with negative culture and direct smear for other bacteria except for ...

Mixed bacterial toxins have been used in an ef fort to destroy malignant tumors in patients and animals since 1892, when Coley (13) initiated clini cal applications. No systematic study of the histopathologic effects of mixed bacterial toxins on ex perimental tumors has been found. Several good studies of changes elicited in tumors by products from single bacterial strains have been published (...

Part I. The Production of Bacterial Toxins .. 4 1. The use of media of simplified composition.......................... 4 2. The possible relationship of oxidation-reduction systems to the formation of toxins............................................. 6 3. Other factors affecting the formation of toxins .......... .......... 8 4. Toxins as products of secretion, autolysis, or the action of en...