English-French translations for clostridium

• clostridie
  Saddam a aussi fabriqué de l'aflatoxine, une substance qui provoque le cancer du foie et des clostridies, responsables de la gangrène gazeuse. Saddam has also produced aflatoxin which causes liver cancer and clostridium which results in gas gangrene.

Definition of clostridium

• Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus ''Clostridium'', that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores

Related words

• clostridial
• Clostridium botulinum
• Clostridium septicum