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Toxin
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Toxin
Any poisonous substance a living thing produces as part of its metabolic or other natural process. That is, toxins themselves are not living things, but are produced by living things. Toxins are defined by the Biological Weapons Convention.
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Botulinum toxins labeled with iodine stayed put, while similar tetanus toxins spread from the point of injection, he said.
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But, if the patient is late and comes with a full-fledged attack of tetanus, survival may not be possible, as firstly, antitetanus serum (ATS) may not prove effective in neutralizing the large amount of tetanus toxin already present in the blood, and secondly, the patient is likely to die of the various fatal complications of the disease in its advanced stage.
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The amount of tetanus toxin to which the patient was exposed may be high enough to overwhelm the existing antibodies or the antibodies may not be uniform in function.
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