tetanus toxoid

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.

Example Sentences

So Klein, who is co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, said she wants the study's findings to begin a conversation about how to better administer the booster Tdap, known as tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine.

From Los Angeles Times

The MenAfriVac uses tetanus toxoid as the protein to which the immunity-generating antigen is attached.

From Economist

It’s actually an old rumor about the tetanus toxoid vaccine resurrected in a new place, and it has the potential to derail a vital immunization campaign as it nearly did in several countries two decades ago – despite no evidence that the vaccine is unsafe.

From Forbes

Yet the labs used a standard pregnancy test designed to detect hCG in blood or urine, not in a vaccine, and the tetanus toxoid vaccine contained the preservative thimerosal and an aluminum salt adjuvant, either or both of which may have led to false positives.

From Forbes

Moreover, when the researchers injected these mice with tetanus toxoid, most of the animals produced human antietanus antibodies, further proof that their new immune systems were functioning as though they were naturally human.

From Time Magazine Archive