About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
The cell cycle and checkpoints
The life cycle of a zygomycete, the black bread mould Rhizopus stolonifer.