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- noun Plural form of
tetanus .
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Examples
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People forgot about polyomelitism, small pox, tetani, diphteria and so on and so on that devastated many gerneration of kids until the vaccine.
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Clostridium tetani, the bacteria which causes tetanus, was isolated in soil, tested, and demonstrated as transmissible in 1884.
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The bacteria that causes tetanus is called Clostridium tetani.
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Tetanus is another disease caused by a toxin-releasing bacterium, Clostridium tetani.
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I was going to comment that other members of the Clostridia group of bacteria, such as C. perfrigens and C. tetani, among others, also produce rather nasty toxins.
Botox injections interfere with somatic response - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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People forgot about polyomelitism, small pox, tetani, diphteria and so on and so on that devastated many gerneration of kids until the vaccine.
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I am compounding my idiocy by just learning today that C. tetani spores can live in salt water.
Communion on the Delaware Bay doyle 2009
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The bacteria C. tetani itself does not cause disease by invading and destroying cells.
Toxicology 2007
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Tetanus is caused by a bacterium, Clostridium tetani.
Toxicology 2007
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* Clostridium tetani, a highly toxigenic substance.
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