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New Hardware, Old Infection: When Should We Suppress After Endocarditis Surgery?
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Soil, Streptomyces, and the Microbes That Changed Medicine
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The Mosquito Named Useless
A mosquito genus was given a name that meant useless before anyone knew it would help explain one of history's great killing fevers. Anopheles began as taxonomy. By the end of the 19th century, the word had become part of malaria's machinery.
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