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Hair-shaft invasion, endothrix versus ectothrix, clinical variants and mycological investigation.
Introduction and Etiology: scutula, scarring and fungal nomenclature.
Clinical features and diagnosis, hair involvement and microscopy with culture.
Investigation of Dermatological Specimens for Superficial Mycoses by the UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations by
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B 39, issue 3.2 (October 2025). Microscopy and specimen types; direct preparations, culture and their limitations.
Testing, treatment, complications and prevention.
Clinical features, treatment and prevention; evidence is insufficient that antimicrobial therapy prevents PSGN.
A Case of Traumatic Tetanus, with Anaesthesia of the Trunk and Upper Extremities, Treated Successfully (1866) by
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Immune globulin; control of spasms; airway, wound and antimicrobial management; vaccination during recovery.
Purulent skin and soft tissue infections; furuncles and carbuncles; cultures, incision and drainage and adjunctive antibiotics.
Original memoir by Louis Pasteur, communicated in 1857 and printed in 1858; available here in the collected works, volume II, pp. 3–13. §II gives inoculation and growth experiments and contrasts the rival chemical theory.
Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère by Louis Pasteur by
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Original memoir by Louis Pasteur; atmospheric particles, boiled liquids, curved-neck flasks and the spontaneous-generation controversy.
Contemporary book by Félix Archimède Pouchet, published by J. B. Baillière in Paris, defending spontaneous generation.
Original analyses in Robert Mortimer Glover's On the Pathology and Treatment of Scrofula, reproduced as quoted primary passages in the contemporary article Dr. Glover on Scrofula. Inspected reproduction: printed pp. 516–517, explicitly locating the first quoted original analysis at book p. 73. It supports solvent fractionation, protein-rich residue, mineral salts and variation between lesions. The entire original book was not inspected; therapeutic and etiological beliefs in the surrounding review are not endorsed.
Current institutional guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cited sections: Bacteriologic examination, nucleic acid amplification and culture. Used only for the modern distinction between chemical composition and infectious diagnosis, not as an 1866 laboratory procedure.
Factors Affecting the Efficacy of Disinfection and Sterilization by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by
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Guidance on organic contamination, germicide consumption and contact duration.
Original memoir by Louis Pasteur, Annales scientifiques de l’École Normale Supérieure, first series, volume 1, pages 113–158. DOI: doi.org/10.24033/asens.4. The numbered sections discuss acetification, the surface growth and experimental conditions.
Fact sheet, 30 January 2025, transmission and life cycle: infected copepods swallowed in water. This explanatory life cycle is not attributed to the 1865 candidate.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
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