For over a century, since the discovery by Roux and Yersin that sterile culture supernatants of Corynebacterium diphtheriae contained a potent toxin able to reproduce the lesions caused by diphtheria ([1][1]), most pathogenic bacteria have been considered to be microorganisms able to intoxicate
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