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==Description and significance==
==Description and Significance==
 
''Clostridium tetani'' is a rod-shaped, anaerobic, and endospore-forming bacterium that is responsible for the tetanus disease affecting an estimated 350,000 people a year worldwide <ref> <http://microbes.historique.net/ref>.


==Genome Structure==
==Genome Structure==


==Cell structure and metabolism==
==Cell Structure and Metabolism==


==Ecology==
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==Pathology==
==Pathology==


==Application to biotechnology==
==Application to Biotechnology==
 
==Current Research==


==Current research==
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Revision as of 22:41, 18 April 2009

Description and Significance

Clostridium tetani is a rod-shaped, anaerobic, and endospore-forming bacterium that is responsible for the tetanus disease affecting an estimated 350,000 people a year worldwide <ref> <http://microbes.historique.net/ref>.

Genome Structure

Cell Structure and Metabolism

Ecology

Pathology

Application to Biotechnology

Current Research