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Tetanus trismus in a 2 year old child: Case report [PDF]

, 2014
Tetanus is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity in developing countries. It occurs in children mainly in the unimmunized, due to parental ignorance and objection to vaccination.
Menon Narayanankutty Sunilkumar, Vadakut Krishnan Parvathy
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Some Cultural Reactions Of Clostridium Tetani [PDF]

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 1970
Summary Probably because CI. tetani is a well-defined species whose recognition is rarely difficult, no recent attempts have been made to clarify the present uncertainties about its gelatinolytic and proteolytic activity. In the present study of 71 strains of the organism, all of them were shown to produce gelatinase, and none was proteolytic.
Kathleen Williams, A. T. Willi
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Tratamento responsivo de um equino com tétano: Relato de caso

Pubvet, 2022
O tétano é uma doença infecciosa não contagiosa, causada por exotoxinas produzidas por Clostridium tetani (C. tetani), um microrganismo de distribuição mundial, gram-positivo, encontrado sob a forma vegetativa ou esporulada.
Edna Santana Chabí, Ana Paula Cardoso Peixoto, Carla Almeida Miranda, Danielle Nobre Santos Pinheiro, Larissa Queiroz de Souza, Tamiles Santos Abreu, Tamires Oliveira Pereira   +6 more
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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir, Andrew McAuley, CC McGuigan, CN Ramsay, Corinne Amar, D Akbulut, DJ Passaro, E MacDonald, E Tweed, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gauri Godbole, Gillian Penrice, GY Chang, Health Protection Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD), J McLauchlin, J Sobel, J Strang, JA Jones, JA Stoltz, K Alpers, K Dunleavy, Kathie Grant, Kirsten M. A. Trayner, Kirsty Roy, M Desai, M Harris, M Ragonnet-Cronin, M Schroeter, MG Booth, N Markwick, National Records of Scotland, NE Palmateer, Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, RJ Gordon, SB Werner, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Protection Network, SJ Hahné, SR Offerman, TN Wenham, VD Hope, VD Hope, Y Soukup-Baljak   +43 more
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Recentes avanços e necessidades de pesquisa em tétano

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1978
O autor faz uma análise sobre a bacteriologia do Clostridium tetani, citando trabalhos recentes que evidenciam a termo-sensibilidade e a não-fermentação da glicose como características das cepas toxigências. Esclarece ainda diversos aspectos da patogenia
Walter Tavares
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Cold Plasma-Mediated Inactivation of Spore-Forming Microorganisms: Mechanisms, Quality Attributes, and Efficiency Parameters. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
This review seeks to systematically assess the efficacy of cold plasma treatment in spore inactivation, elucidating its operational mechanisms through a comprehensive analysis of scientific literature that investigates the impact of various influencing factors.
Ezzati S, Ahangari H, Mohammadian M, Khoshkalampour A, Moghaddas Kia E, Ghasempour Z.   +5 more
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Neonatal tetanus [PDF]

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2021
Neonatal tetanus, also known as tetanus neonatorum, occurs in young infants of inadequately immunized mothers. It is a kind of generalized tetanus that is exhibited mainly by prevention of the release of the inhibitory neurotransmitters (i.e ...
Itzhak Brook
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Insights into Clostridium tetani: From genome to bioreactors

Biotechnology Advances, 2022
Tetanus vaccination is of major importance for public health in most countries in the world. The World Health Organization indicated that 15,000 tetanus cases were reported in 2018 (Organization, World Health, 2019). Currently, vaccine manufacturers use tetanus toxin produced by Clostridium tetani fermentation in complex media.
Garrigues, Lucile, Do, Thuy Duong, Bideaux, Carine, Guillouet, Stéphane, Meynial-Salles, Isabelle   +4 more
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Clinical and epidemiological profile of accidental tetanus cases in Ribeirão Preto in the State of São Paulo from 1990 to 2009 [PDF]

, 2011
INTRODUÇÃO: O tétano continua sendo um grave problema de saúde pública nos países em desenvolvimento. No Brasil, apesar dos avanços tecnológicos, não houve um decréscimo significativo da taxa de letalidade nos últimos anos.
FAIOLLA, Rivian Christina Lopes, LIMA, Geovana Momo Nogueira de, MUNIZ, Renata Zomer de Albernaz, NAPOLI, Emília Maria Guimarães de, NEVES, Fábio Fernandes, PAZIN-FILHO, Antônio   +5 more
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Genome sequencing of multidrug resistant novel Clostridium sp. BL8 reveals its potential for pathogenicity [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: The human gut microbiome is important for maintaining the health status of the host. Clostridia are key members of the human gut microbiome, carrying out several important functions in the gut environment.
Dilip R Ranade, Mandar Rasane, Nachiket Marathe, Sudarshan Shetty, Vikram B Lanjekar, Yogesh S Shouche   +5 more
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