Pewarnaan Gram Clostridium Tetani. It is also called spasmogenic toxin or tent the ld 50 of this toxin has been measured to be approximately 2 5 3 ng kg making it second only to the. Tetanus lockjaw is an acute disease caused by neurotoxins from the bacterium clostridium tetani.
It is gram positive and commonly appears to be shaped like a drumstick or tennis racket when stained. Costridium tetani menghasilkan 2 eksotosin yaitu tetanospamin dan tetanolisin. Clostridium tetani is an obligate anaerobic gram positive bacillus with terminal round spore drum stick appearance.
Clostridium tetani is a slender obligate anaerobic bacillus measuring 0 5 1 7 µm by 2 1 18 1 µm.
20 the spores resist extremes of temperature and. 18 the mature organism loses its flagella and forms a spherical terminal spore 19 thus looking like a squash racket fig. Clostridium tetani tetanus atau kejang mulut adalah besar gram positif membentuk spora motil obligat bakteri berbentuk batang yang memproduksi spora yang ditemukan berlimpah dalam tanah dan kotoran dari hewan dan manusia. Jika diwarnai dengan pewarnaan gram bakteri ini bersifat gram positif.
