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Antitoxin refers to the antibody that counteracts a toxin.
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Can you give a sentence using the word antitoxin?
Antitoxin is important.
When was Toxin-antitoxin database created?
Toxin-antitoxin database was created in 2010.
How can you use antitoxin in a sentence?
"The doctor administered antitoxin to counteract the effect of the scorpion sting."
Why was antitoxin given instead of a booster shot of tetanus toxoid?
Why was antitoxin given instead of a booster shot of tetanus toxoid?
What is a synonym for serum?
antitoxin, plasma
What does the C and D antitoxin do?
kill
How is diphtheria treated if the patient is sensitive to animal serum?
Patients who are sensitive (about 10%) must be desensitized with diluted antitoxin, since the antitoxin is the only specific substance that will counteract diphtheria exotoxin. No human antitoxin is available for the treatment of diphtheria.
What is the substance that acts against a poison?
Antitoxin
What does a antitoxin fight against?
An antitoxin is a cell on the surface of the white blood cell which latches on the toxin of a bacteria and destroys it. if your WBC (white blood cell) did recognise the same toxin on the bacteria the antitoxin from the WBC would be made a lot efficiently and rsapidly to destroy the toxin.
What has the author D G Evans written?
D. G. Evans has written: 'An investigation into the management of sauna suites' 'Persistence of tetanus antitoxin in man following active immunisation' -- subject(s): Vaccination, Tetanus, Tetanus antitoxin 'The protective properties of the alpha antitoxin and theta antihaemolysin occurring in Cl. welchii type A antiserum' -- subject(s): Gas gangrene antitoxin, Clostridium perfringens
What is the antitoxin for diphtheria?
The antitoxin is made from horse serum and works by neutralizing any circulating exotoxin. The doctor must first test the patient for sensitivity to animal serum.
Can you give me a sentence using the word antitoxin?
The doctor hovered over the seemingly lifeless form of her patient with great hope that the antitoxin was doing its job of neutralizing his deadly infection.
