Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059
Volume 18, Number 10—October 2012
Etymologia
Etymologia: Tetanus
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Tetanus [tet′ə-nəs]
From the Greek tetanos (“tension,” from teinein, “to stretch”), an often fatal infectious disease caused by the anaerobic bacillus Clostridium tetani. Tetanus was well known to the ancients; Greek physician Aretaeus wrote in the first century
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Suggested citation for this article: Etymologia: Tetanus. Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. 2012 Oct [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1810.ET1810
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