What Is Tetanus Bacteria?
The pathogen of tetanus is a species of Clostridium. Usually found in soil, often found in animal feces.
Tetanus
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- Chinese name
- Tetanus
- Foreign name
- The tetanus toxoid
- Commonly known
- Bacillus
- living environment
- soil
- The pathogen of tetanus is a species of Clostridium. Usually found in soil, often found in animal feces.
- Tetanus bacillus
- Because it forms drumstick-shaped terminal spores, it is also commonly known as comma bacillus according to its shape. In the animal's stab wounds or deep wounds, it is particularly easy to grow with other bacteria (mixed infection) and form local abscesses. Cells at synapse and neuromuscular junctions have a strong affinity for exotoxin produced at this time, which can cause tonic spasms in voluntary muscles. The toxins can even move to the center through the peripheral nerves, eventually killing the animal. But bacteria only grow locally. The bacteria is A. Nicolaier (1884) found that it was separated from Kitashizai Saburo (1889). Generally, toxins can also be produced in the culture medium. The filtered culture medium can kill mole rats by 1 × 10-5 ml. The toxin is composed of the highly toxic tetanus spastic toxin and tetanus hemolysin. The former has been prepared as a crystalline protein and has a high antigenicity. Toxoids that are killed by formaldehyde also have antigenicity. It has been determined that the receptors on the cells of this toxin are gangliosid-e like cholera toxin and serum angiotensin. It is a typical anaerobic bacterium that can only be cultivated after the invention of puncture culture technology.