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Clostridium tetani is a bacterium that is the causative agent of tetanus. Spores in contaminated wounds, needles, burns and lacerations transmit it. It occurs worldwide and in 2003, over 15,000 patients contracted tetanus. Between 2000 and 2003, over 290,000 people died of tetanus.

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