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**Toxin can be blood-borne and bind to motor terminals throughout the body as well as in the CNS
 
**Toxin can be blood-borne and bind to motor terminals throughout the body as well as in the CNS
 
*Clinical signs:
 
*Clinical signs:
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**Incubation period 5-10 days
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**Stiffness, localised spasms, altered heart and respiratory rates, dysphagia, altered facial expression, lock-jaw from mastigatory muscle spasm
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**Tonic muscle contraction easily stimulated
     
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