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You mentioned that your husband did not have the toxin but he did have the common antigen or GDH. I don't know if the common antigen for C. difficile would be found in C. tetani. It might be common to both because the kit manufacturers and physicians would not be expecting to find C. tetani at all due to vaccinations.
From @Rinse and Repeat:
Now what is the odds that my husband went into the hospital a second time and tested positive for a clostridium infection too?
"Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, which one of its toxins, tetanospasmin is the cause of clinical symptoms. The incubation period is generally 3 days to 3 weeks. The clinical severity is due to the amount of toxin and the neural distance to reach the neuronal body. The clinic outcome may be localized, generalized and cephalic which can be mild to severe. Trismus, risus sardonicus, dysphagia, abdominal rigidity and opisthotonos can be a part of clinical picture in generalized form. Here we report a case who previously admitted several clinics with back pain which was resistant to analgesic drugs."
From @Rinse and Repeat:
Now what is the odds that my husband went into the hospital a second time and tested positive for a clostridium infection too?
"Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, which one of its toxins, tetanospasmin is the cause of clinical symptoms. The incubation period is generally 3 days to 3 weeks. The clinical severity is due to the amount of toxin and the neural distance to reach the neuronal body. The clinic outcome may be localized, generalized and cephalic which can be mild to severe. Trismus, risus sardonicus, dysphagia, abdominal rigidity and opisthotonos can be a part of clinical picture in generalized form. Here we report a case who previously admitted several clinics with back pain which was resistant to analgesic drugs."