Introduction Clostridium tetani more commonly known as Tetanus is an acute infectious disease. Tetanus is not contagious and is a neurotoxin produced by Clostridium tetani. It is characterized by muscular spasms that mainly involve the voluntary muscle groups. Tetanus can affect horses, goat, swine, cat, dog, sheep, cattle and many other domestic animals. In cattle the disease is relatively rare, but in some cases can spread through a herd causing substantial economic loss. Clostridium tetani is
Tetanus is an often fatal disease caused by bacteria known all over the world. Stepping on a rusty nail is a very common example of how someone can get tetanus. However, there are many more factors to the disease. Tetanus can enter the body through many different ways from an object like a nail to a needle puncturing the skin. Tetanus can also enter the body through crush injuries, burns, or injuries with dead tissue or wounds contaminated with dirt, manure or spit. Since tetanus can only enter the
Tetanus is a potentially deadly disease that is caused by the Clostridium tetani bacterium. Tetanus is found worldwide and is a very preventable disease. The ability to protect ourselves from Tetanus by following a proper vaccination schedule has greatly reduced the number of yearly reported cases. Tetanus has a devastating effect on the neurons, causing an infected individual to usually experience very painful involuntary symptoms that may result in death if left untreated. My interest in knowing
Tetanus is a bacterial infection which is spread by a bacterium named Clostridium tetani which usually lives in soil/ground matter, commonly contracted through your feet when cuts or wounds occur, mostly in rural and farming communities. These bacteria spread a toxin into wounds which then reciprocates the toxin into the brain or the spinal cord. There it interferes with the regular cellular activity. Tetanus will mostly affect the motor nerves which will interfere with the messages sent to our muscles
manure, animal intestines, and feces.3 Generally, C. tetani spores can survive for months in their natural environment. However, under the proper environmental conditions, the spores can survive for years.4 Infection from C. tetani bacteria causes tetanus, a disease that affects the nervous system. The spores enter the host through open wounds.3 Many cells are dead at the wound site, which provides an ideal environment for the germination of more C. tetani spores. After entering the host, the bacteria
Whooping cough is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis. Despite having an available vaccine, cases of whooping cough in the United States and around the world have steadily increased since the 1980s, especially among infant and adolescent age groups. In recent years, 2012 had the highest number of cases since 1955. The number of cases have since decreased however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted a 15% increase
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and death. Immunizations should receive praise for the reduction of death and suffering of children since the creation of these vaccines. Disease Annual Number of Reported Cases: Pre-Vaccine Number of Reported Cases: 2012 Diphtheria 175,885 1 Tetanus 1,314 36 Measles 503,282
Vaccination is widely considered one of the most successful medical attainments of modern civilization and a cost-effective public health tool. It prevents citizens from acquiring serious diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and diphtheria. These diseases were common in children generations ago, but the mortality rate is decreasing now because of immunization. Moreover, smallpox was the critical disease until two centuries ago, where millions died from it every year. After the invention of vaccination
Bordetella pertussis "Whooping Cough" Encounter and Colonization Bordetella pertussis is a highly communicable agent and is transmitted person-to-person via airborne droplets or direct contact with discharges from the respiratory mucous membranes of an infected person. This small, gram-negative coccobacillus is non-motile, aerobic and fastidious. B. pertussis colonizes the respiratory tract including the mouth, nose, throat and beginning of the lungs of young children worldwide. The bacteria
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Tetanus is a bacteria that causes very rare fatal disease that people sometimes called lockjaw, they call it lockjaw because it is a tightness in the jaw. Not many people know what Tetanus is because it is so rare. The bacteria that Tetanus comes from is very good at duplicating itself; also, Tetanus has many layers to protect themselves which makes it hard to cure when you get it. You can cure it by washing out the cut right when you get it or getting it vaccinated. The Tetanus cell looks like
Whooping cough, also known as Pertussis, is called the “whooping cough” because after people with this infectious disease cough severely, they gasp for air which sounds similar to a whooping sound. People afflicted with this disease often find have trouble breathing, eating, or sleeping because they have to cough so much. People may cough so severely that their face may turn purple or red. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after being infected with whooping cough, around
autism, fever, or death. One example can be seen in DTP vaccine which is one of the deadly vaccines that contain many side effects such as high fever, brain damaged, fainting, or sometime death. DTP vaccine is a vaccine which uses to cure diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis which is a common disease found among children and adult. There are two ways of how peoples think of vaccines. These two ways are called cultural and social factor. Cultural factor concern with reason about religion or cultural believes
Bordetella pertussis is an aerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacillus bacterium. It is non-spore forming and non-motile, usually containing a capsule. Its preferred temperature to grow is in the range of 35-37C. Under the microscope, it is identified by its rod like cell shape, as well as its short, oval size. During a blood agar culture test for this particular bacteria, the specimen tends to take 3 to 6 days to form a pinpoint sized colony. B. pertussis appears to only affect the human species, therefore
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae) Corynebacteria are Gram-positive, aerobic, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria related to the Actinomycetes. They do not form spores or branch as do the actinomycetes, but they have the characteristic of forming irregular shaped, club-shaped or V-shaped arrangements in normal growth. They undergo snapping movements just after cell division which brings them into characteristic arrangements resembling Chinese letters. The genus Corynebacterium consists of a diverse
Pertussis If someone had the case of the “whoopie doopies’’ also known as whooping cough or pertussis, you might want to go get yourself checked out (cdc). Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that spreads very quickly even though a single drop of liquid. This disease mostly happens in young infants or small toddlers. Its really dangerous for a small child under a month to get this disease. Pertussis mostly happens in a small child or infant.Pertussis, or also known as whooping
However, miraculously, the patient had no broken bones and he was alert, oriented, and ambulating. During the visit to the hospital, a nurse brought in a vaccination vial and a syringe and started drawing up the vaccine while stating, “Have you had a tetanus vaccine? You need this shot. I noticed you haven’t had one recently.” The patient said “no, no, no shots. I don’t want that.” The nurse then attempted to use humor stating “it’s no big deal, it’s just a little pinch.” This comment towards an older
he was tearing. The puncture wound has produced moderate quantities of pus, but it has not been kept clean. According to the patients’ immunization records a tetanus vaccination has not been administered to him since he was a child. With this patient producing these types of signs and symptoms as well as his immunization records for tetanus vaccination and boosters are
1. My life before the war1 Hi, I am Jim; I a clostridium tetani bacterium but most people know our kind as tetanus. We clostridium tetani are anaerobic rod shaped bacterium, I am 4.0-8.0 µm pretty impressive huh? My parents and I live in a pile of animal feces but now I have a younger sibling so we are going to have to move to either an old rusty nail or some dust. We are just waiting here for another one of those silly human beings to come along so we can get in to their wounds and infect them;