How to Use antitoxin in a Sentence

antitoxin

noun
  • The crucial diphtheria antitoxin couldn’t be sent by ship due to heavy ice.
    — Geekmom Blog, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2012
  • In Alaska, the antitoxin is stored at eight hospitals across the state.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2020
  • In other words, a book that could be a personal antitoxin against the current moment.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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 proper treatment for botulism is an antitoxin, not a sleeping pill.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Piper was given a botulism antitoxin via an IV drip.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Once botulism is confirmed, it can be treated with an antitoxin and, in some cases, antibiotics.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 May 2017
  • Treating botulism requires an antitoxin, not a sleeping pill.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • It’s treated with an antitoxin, typically in intensive care units.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
  • Doctors had administered antitoxin promptly, so his windpipe wasn’t blocked.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nine were hospitalized and four were treated with botulism antitoxin because of concerns the botulinum toxin could have spread beyond the injection site.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Botulism is treated with an antitoxin, typically in intensive care units.
    — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
  • As one of the worst blizzards in decades buried Alaska in snow, officials ordered additional relay teams to ensure safe delivery of the antitoxin.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • These mutants produce their own version of the antitoxin molecule, preventing suicide of the bacterial host.
    — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2012
  • 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
  • The antitoxin was then successfully transported to the hospitals.
    — Max Gao, Variety, 14 May 2025
  • If someone develops any of these symptoms, seek immediate medical attention, as antitoxin may be needed.
    — Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • 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, 5 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mortality is high; without the antitoxin and respiratory support, death is likely.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The family member’s information is what led Nelson’s team to step in and help authorize giving the woman botulinum antitoxin to prevent the poison from causing further damage.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 11 July 2024
  • 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

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