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Can you pick up a bacterium?

Una Smith una at doliolum.biology.yale.edu
Fri Oct 28 09:13:10 EST 1994


kruskal at a1.tch.harvard.edu (ben kruskal) writes:

>If the patient had Enterobacter isolated from his blood, and also had
>prostatitis with cultures revealing only coag- staph, then the source
>of his sepsis was probably not the prostate!

Indeed.  And the patient is now reported to be healthy, except
for some prostatitis.  Perhaps the patient has been worrying his
prostate, and should be advised to leave the poor thing alone.  ;-)

-- 
	Una Smith		una.smith at yale.edu

Dept. of Biology, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT  06520-8104



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