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Veterinary Infectious Diseases

Journal

Tetanus

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Full-Text Articles in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health

Alive-Stiff-Dead [Tetanus], F C. Wilkinson Jan 1966

Alive-Stiff-Dead [Tetanus], F C. Wilkinson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Only 12 hours before this photograph was taken the lamb pictured was alive and healthy.

When examined it was very stiff and unable to stand. A few hours later it was dead.


Tetanus In Farm Animals, C R. Toop Jan 1960

Tetanus In Farm Animals, C R. Toop

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE disease tetanus occurs in practically all of the animals and man.

It is caused by the tetanus bacillus (Clostridium tetani) and results from contamination of wounds and raw surfaces with materials such as earth or dust containing these organisms.