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Eat nuts going bad, resulting in infection (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tetanus

'infection' is the definition.
(tetanus is a kind of infection)

'eat nuts going bad' is the wordplay.
'going bad' indicates anagramming the letters.
'eat'+'nuts'='eatnuts'
'eatnuts' is an anagram of 'TETANUS'.

'resulting in' is the link.

(Other definitions for tetanus that I've seen before include "Disease causing muscle spasms" , "Infection from wound" , "Locker" , "infectious disease" , "health problem" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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