antitoxin
Example Sentences
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“When we launched the tetanus antitoxin, I could have sold it at five times the price,” Cyrus says.
From Science Magazine
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.
From Seattle Times
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.
From New York Times
Diphtheria antitoxin was especially persuasive that the germ theory was true.
From Washington Post
An unnamed ironist had appropriated a quotation from Mao about revolutionary war as “an antitoxin” that “eliminates the enemy’s poison” and offered it as a rebuke of the solemnity of Communist propaganda.
From The New Yorker
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