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Tetanus is unlike many other bacteria in that the disease that it provokes is not so much an infection but an intoxication with a microbe-made poison. Embedded soundly in a enclosed and airless wound, C. tetani pumps out tetanospasm toxin, which acts on the central nervous system much like the pesticide and poison strychnine. Tetanospasm is one of the most potent toxins in the world.