How to Use antitoxin in a Sentence

antitoxin

noun

• In Alaska, the antitoxin is stored at eight hospitals across the state.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2020
• The crucial diphtheria antitoxin couldn’t be sent by ship due to heavy ice.
  — Geekmom Blog, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2012
• With venom from organoids more easily available, the hope is to skip the horse in the antitoxin-production process.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
• The very first prize in medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring in 1901 for the discovery of antitoxins, but not to his close collaborator Shibasaburo Kitasato.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• Treatment requires antitoxin, which can stop it from causing more harm but can’t reverse damage already done, the CDC warns.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 11 June 2021
• The gentlemen in Greenburgh on Monday also invoked all the correct balms, elixirs and antitoxins.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• The proper treatment for botulism is an antitoxin, not a sleeping pill.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• One study in the forties found that a batch of diphtheria antitoxin protected some guinea pigs from the disease, but not others, depending on whether they’d been reared on green vegetables or beets.
  — Sonia Shah, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2023
• The story of a sled dog who led the 1925 serum run to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions during an epidemic of diphtheria.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2021
• But if the antitoxin isn't administered right away, the neurotoxin can cause muscle paralysis, which can take weeks or even years to reverse.
  — Laura Geggel Senior Writer, Fox News, 26 May 2017
• Once botulism is confirmed, it can be treated with an antitoxin and, in some cases, antibiotics.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 May 2017
• After a diphtheria outbreak occurs in Nome in 1925, the city finds itself desperately in need of antitoxin.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• However, antibiotics are not used in children of this age, as killing the toxin in their intestines can trigger the release of additional antitoxins.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 May 2017
• Ideally, the antitoxin should be administered within hours of eating the food to prevent the onset of paralysis.
  — Aaron Davis, The Mercury News, 24 May 2017
• One of the regional operations, Operation Togo, harks back to the grueling 1925 sled dog run that rushed diphtheria antitoxin across the state to an outbreak in Nome.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Botulism can be treated with an antitoxin medication, which stops the toxin from causing more damage to the body but cannot undo any damage that’s already occurred.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 19 May 2021
• The site is located within a pharma industry cluster whose roots go back more than a century to Nobel Prize winner Emil von Behring, who developed the antitoxin for diptheria and tetanus.
  — Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• The antitoxin for one rich celebrity president is not likely to be a different rich celebrity president (albeit an infinitely smarter and more humane one).
  — Rebecca Traister, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile, there are plenty of things in the stockpile that aren’t particularly helpful right now – botulism antitoxin, for instance, and millions of doses of smallpox vaccine.
  — Andrew Lakoff, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2020
• These mutants produce their own version of the antitoxin molecule, preventing suicide of the bacterial host.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2012
• Treating botulism requires an antitoxin, not a sleeping pill.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• Symptoms begin with vomiting and blurred vision followed by a slow paralysis that can lead to respiratory failure if an antitoxin is not administered in time.
  — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 5 June 2017
• It’s treated with an antitoxin, typically in intensive care units.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
• An editorial cartoon mocking Emil Adolf Von Behring and his discovery of serum therapy, in which a diphtheria antitoxin was developed by repeatedly exposing a horse to the diphtheria toxin.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
• Botulism is treated with an antitoxin, typically in intensive care units.
  — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
• Diphtheria bacteria produces a toxin, making it especially deadly, unless the antitoxin serum is administered.
  — Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
• Vodka is a natural disinfectant, antitoxin, and antiseptic.
  — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024