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The mechanism for clostridium botulinum is that it prevents vesicle fusion of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction, where neurons connect with muscle. Acetylcholine is the molecule responsible for telling your muscle to move and botulism prevents this chemical messenger from leaving the neuron and reaching the muscle. The end results is silence, or paralysis. The tetanus toxin works in a similar way, however it prevents inhibitory chemical messages (glycine and GABA) from reaching the muscle and the end results is hyperactivity, or tetanus. Both result in paralysis.

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