You are performing Koch’s postulates on sputum specimens tak…
You are performing Koch’s postulates on sputum specimens taken from patients with a new unexplained respiratory illness. Agar cultures of all of the sputum show an abundance of a particular kind of colony, to the exclusion even of the normal variety of normal respiratory biota. No healthy subjects’ cultures have this particular kind of colony. But when you administer this bacterium in aerosol form to the proper animal model, you do not get disease. What are the possible reasons for this?
Read DetailsPTCs may approve the use of medicines for ‘Individual Patien…
PTCs may approve the use of medicines for ‘Individual Patient Use’ where a medicine needed is not on the facility formulary; a patient is referred to requiring non-formulary medicines; or the medicine is on the facility formulary but requires strict control. Thus, the facilities PTCs need to:
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