Community Acquired Respiratory Distress Syndrome (CARDS) Toxin (IMAGE)
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Mycoplasmas are the smallest of all bacteria and have proven very difficult to study. Dr. Joel Baseman's laboratory at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio discovered the CARDS Toxin in 2006, a finding that was called, at the time, one of the most important in the field since the discovery of the classical toxins of cholera, diphtheria and pertussis. The latter, pertussis toxin, is the agent that causes whooping cough.
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P. John Hart, Ph.D., X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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