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Sex and syphilis

Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.

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Why we still need quarantine

For years, quarantine has been an important measure to curb the spread of infection and avert further deaths. Discover the way it has been used in the past and why it is still necessary today.

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The meaning of trauma is wound

Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.

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The secret sting of cystitis

Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.

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  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • To uncover the new way of healing severe female acne when antibiotics have failed, mail this card : Diane cyproterone acetate and ethinyloestradiol.
  • To uncover the new way of healing severe female acne when antibiotics have failed, mail this card : Diane cyproterone acetate and ethinyloestradiol.
  • To uncover the new way of healing severe female acne when antibiotics have failed, mail this card : Diane cyproterone acetate and ethinyloestradiol.
  • Antibiotic stained tooth
  • E Coli antibiotic production
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
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