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This neonate is displaying a bodily rigidity produced by Clostridium tetani exotoxin, called “neonatal tetanus”. Neonatal tetanus occurs in infants born without protective passive immunity, because the mother is not immune. It usually occurs through infection of the unhealed umbilical stump, particularly when the stump is cut with an unsterile instrument.

source CDC

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Sir Charles Bell's portrait of a soldier dying of tetanus. The characteristic rigidity of the body is referred to as opisthotonos and risus sardonicus.

Original in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland.





http://textbookofbacteriology.net/clostridia_3.html


Lockjaw symptoms are caused due to Clostridium tetani infection. Damaged upper motor neurons cause muscular rigidity leading to Lock-jaw.







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http://www.limburg.be/tetanusendifterie

Clostridium tetani

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