
Melioidosis
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Is Glimmering a Bioterrorism Weapon?
The standard treatment was a three, three drug combination of a chlorimpinicl chlorinpinicl tro co trimoxsa and doxy cyclin a. In the modern era, it was associated with a mortality rate of 80%. Now at that time is when we get sephtasideme introduced, which is a different anabotic, which worked a lot better. So now we have better medications to treat this. And the mortality rate is forty % in resource limited settings, and like ten percent in resource rich settings. It has been investigated as a bioterrorism weapon in the past. We've had four cases in the us. There was also an outbreakle
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