antitoxin
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There is an antitoxin that doctors can give.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
As diphtheria - a serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection - spread among Nome's people, its port was icebound, meaning antitoxin would have to be delivered overland.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023
Dr. Park was responsible for helping mass-produce an antitoxin that served as a breakthrough in treating and preventing diphtheria, a disease that killed many of the small children and others who share his burial ground.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
So even if this approach works, patients will likely also need the approved antitoxin treatment to remove toxin from the blood.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 6, 2021
The bacillus remains after the use of antitoxin just as if antitoxin had not been used.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
