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How can Clostridium tetani proliferate in relatively minor wounds?
Nondisruption of blood supply seems to be a heuristic/rule of thumb/approximation of the survival of oxygen supply to tissue in and around a "minor" wound. What I mean is, it's not a 100% ...
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