
48 - Urine the Lung
The Curious Clinicians
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Is It the Same Oswald Avery?
Most of these diagnostic tests are antigen tests and not cultures or p crsad. In 19 17, alphonse dochet and oswald every observed that a nuwmacockle antogen was readily identified in the urine in patients who had like a low bar new macakl pneumonia. And it's actually a really interesting second connection from this work back in 19 17. The antogen they were studying was the c poly sacherite of strep neumonia. That c poly sacharite is what c r p reacts with, giving it its name, c reactive protein.
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