Biology: What bacterium produces a toxin that causes secrection of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, causing diarrheoa, dehydration and loss of salts from the blood?

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What bacterium produces a toxin that causes secrection of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, causing diarrheoa, dehydration and loss of salts from the blood?

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Cholera

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What bacterium produces a toxin that causes secrection of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, causing diarrheoa, dehydration and loss of salts from the blood?

Cholera

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