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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>. | |||
''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>. This bacterium is gram-positive, a characteristic shared by the other related species belonging to the ''Clostridium'' genus. | |||
==Genome Structure== | ==Genome Structure== | ||
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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>. This bacterium is gram-positive, a characteristic shared by the other related species belonging to the Clostridium genus.