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Connections: From Mima/Herellea to Acinetobacter to the Double Helix to Lwoff to … CRAB

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There once was a Scientific American section authored by science historian James Burke called ‘Connections”. In it James Burke, a true renaissance man, showed us how an ‘internet’ of serendipitous encounters, connections between persons, places and events led to advances Continue reading Connections: From Mima/Herellea to Acinetobacter to the Double Helix to Lwoff to … CRAB→

CMV Connections: Paul-Bunnell Negative Mononucleosis and ‘Changelings’

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Mononuclesosis is an EBV infection that can be diagnosed with the heterophil antibody test developed by Paul and Bunnell. The test is based on the agglutination of sheep erythrocytes with the blood of EBV infected patients. P-B heterophil serology is Continue reading CMV Connections: Paul-Bunnell Negative Mononucleosis and ‘Changelings’→