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A 23 year old male patient is demonstrating severe face and arm muscle…
A 23 year old male patient is demonstrating severe face and arm muscle spasm and can hardly speak. The brother explains that he got a fresh tattoo yesterday from a sketchy tattoo parlor. You order blood tests and it shows that the patient has been infected with clostridium tetani a bacteria found in soil transmitted by dirty needles. It produces a toxin affecting neurons and their ability to release neurotransmitters. The patient was never vaccinated against bacterium.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ANATOMY
muscle twitch
simple contraction, single action potential
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