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| | INFECTIOUS DISEASES |
 | | Since ancient times, physicians have known that many diseases are transmissible, but because of the subtle and idiosyncratic ways in which infections seem to travel, the early-modern physicians thought the responsible particles must be much smaller than our cells (correct) and closer in size to atoms (not correct). |
 | | The manifestations of Lyme disease are protean and unpredictable. |
 | | Other toxin-related staphylococcal diseases are toxic-shock syndrome (GI upsets, shock, conjunctivitis, rash, liver failure, kidney failure, and loss of skin, caused by strains producing shock syndrome toxin 1; remember the relationship to super-absorbent tampons left in place too long) and the pediatric scalded skin syndrome (a blistering disease caused by strains producing epidermolytic toxin). |
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