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- February 18, 2008 at 11:27 am #9127didymocarpusParticipant
what are antitoxins? how do they differ from antibiotics? 😉
- February 19, 2008 at 6:19 pm #81961DarbyParticipant
Just look at the words. Antibiotics are poisons aimed at some sort of living thing, usually bacteria. Antitoxins are aimed at poisons themselves. Both groups get the jobs done in a variety of ways. Snake antivenom, for instance, is often antibodies (from horses exposed to small amounts of venom) that bind the venom molecules so they don’t function anymore.
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