2025·Current research in microbial sciences
Clostridium tetani bacteraemia in the plague area in France: Two cases
Boualam MA, Bouri A, Signoli M, Drancourt M, Caputo A, Terrer E, Aboudharam G.
Read at the journaldoi:10.1016/j.crmicr.2025.100339
Abstract
•Two C. tetani bacteraemia cases found in 16th-century French plague site.•Palaeoculturomics identified C. tetani in dental pulp samples.•Whole-genome sequencing confirmed toxigenic C. tetani strains. Keywords: Clostridium, Clostridium tetani, Tetanus, Palaeomicrobiology, Palaeoculturomics
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