[Billthedrill]

Clostridia have anaerobic or microaerophilic groth requirements, are proteolytic and saccharolytic, and produce several toxins and enzymes, which include some of the most lethal substances known...

Infectious Diseases, p. 756 1984, Roger G. Finch, M.B.

These organisms used to be labeled "strict" anaerobes, meaning that they grow only in the absence of oxygen. However, the conditions in a leaky can aren't anaerobic, only nearly so. A small point, perhaps.

[jurroppi1]

Thanks for the response. I had a feeling that you might state something to that effect, which seems entirely plausible to me.

I was reading elsewhere something that had me on the fence about this too, but I can’t remember where it was now...