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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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The FDA recognizes 118 routes of administration.