Fact sheets
The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.
Public Health action
Additional sources of information
Case definition
Only confirmed cases should be notified.
Confirmed case
A confirmed case requires either:
1. Laboratory definitive evidence
OR
2. clinical evidence.
Laboratory definitive evidence
Isolation of Clostridium tetani from a wound in a compatible clinical setting and prevention of positive tetanospasm in mouse test from such an isolate using specific tetanus antitoxin.
Clinical evidence
A clinically compatible illness without other apparent cause.
