The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a warning (Inadvertent intradermal administration of tetanus toxoid-containing vaccines instead of tuberculosis skin tests ...

With a toxoid vaccine, the goal is to condition the immune system to combat not an invading virus or bacteria but rather a toxin produced by that invading virus or bacteria. The tetanus shot is ...

It is one of the few diseases for which there is an almost infallible preventive agent. Tetanus toxoid was developed almost 50 years ago by Glenny, and its usefulness was shown experimentally in ...