Entry
Org code
ctet
Name
Clostridium tetani 12124569
Annotation
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Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Clostridia; Eubacteriales; Clostridiaceae; Clostridium
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Keywords
Human pathogen, Animal pathogen, Vaccine strain
Disease
Comment
Environmental bacterium that causes tetanus, a toxi-infection associated with a high mortality.
Caused chronic tibial osteitis without any clinical sign of tetanus in a 26-year-old man previously vaccinated against.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
2807481
Plasmid
p12124569; Circular
Sequence
Length
58369
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 2865850
Number of protein genes: 2845
Number of RNA genes: 135
Created
2013
Reference
Authors
Fournier PE, Levy PY, Million M, Croce O, Blanc-Tailleur C, Brouqui P, Raoult D
Title
Genome of a chronic osteitis-causing Clostridium tetani.
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