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

One serious disadvantage in the use of antitoxin is that it leaves the dangerous bacillus in the throat of the patient about as long as an unaided convalescence would leave it.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin