Clostridium tetani

common soil bacterium and the causative agent of tetanus
Taxon taxon Q309471
Clostridium tetani
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Clostridium tetani

Summary

Clostridium tetani is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.69% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (337 views/month, #1,349 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Clostridium tetani's image is recorded as Clostridium tetani 01.png[3].
  • Clostridium tetani's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Clostridium tetani's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Clostridium tetani's parent taxon is recorded as Clostridium[6].
  • Clostridium tetani's taxon name is recorded as Clostridium tetani[7].
  • Clostridium tetani's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh88023240[8].
  • Clostridium tetani's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13507056r[9].
  • Clostridium tetani's Commons category is recorded as Clostridium tetani[10].
  • Clostridium tetani's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D003017[11].
  • Clostridium tetani's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 34394[12].
  • Clostridium tetani's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02dx12[13].
  • Clostridium tetani's UNII is recorded as 751E8J54VM[14].
  • Clostridium tetani's MeSH tree code is recorded as B03.300.390.400.200.725[15].
  • Clostridium tetani's MeSH tree code is recorded as B03.353.625.375.500.725[16].
  • Clostridium tetani's MeSH tree code is recorded as B03.510.415.400.200.725[17].
  • Clostridium tetani's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 1513[18].
  • Clostridium tetani's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph903837[19].
  • Clostridium tetani's ITIS TSN is recorded as 960769[20].
  • Clostridium tetani's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1004359[21].
  • Clostridium tetani's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3226668[22].
  • Clostridium tetani's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Clostridium-tetani[23].
  • Clostridium tetani's has effect is recorded as tetanus[24].
  • Clostridium tetani's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'C. tetani'}[25].
  • Clostridium tetani's LPSN URL is recorded as https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/clostridium-tetani[26].
  • Clostridium tetani's NALT ID is recorded as 14929[27].

Why It Matters

Clostridium tetani ranks in the top 0.69% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (337 views/month, #1,349 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . BacDive. Retrieved . bacdive.dsmz.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . BacDive. Retrieved . bacdive.dsmz.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . BacDive. Retrieved . bacdive.dsmz.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . BacDive. Retrieved . bacdive.dsmz.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Disease Ontology. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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