A substance or antibody that opposes the effects of mallein, the toxin produced by glanders bacteria in horses and other animals.
From 'anti-' + 'mallein' (the protein toxin from Burkholderia mallei, the glanders bacterium). A specialized veterinary medical term from microbiology.
Mallein and antimallein represent how veterinarians built diagnostic and therapeutic systems parallel to human medicine—the mallein test for glanders predates many human bacterial tests, showing animals' diseases advanced medicine first.
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