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  2. Cellulitis - Wikipedia

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    Cellulitis in 2015 resulted in about 16,900 deaths worldwide, up from 12,600 in 2005. [8] Cellulitis is a common global health burden, with more than 650,000 admissions per year in the United States alone. In the United States, an estimated 14.5 million cases annually of cellulitis account for $3.7 billion in ambulatory care costs alone.

  3. Joseph Lister - Wikipedia

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    Lister first used the amputated legs from sheep and discovered that blood remained liquid in the blood vessels for up to six days and still underwent coagulation, albeit more slowly when the vessel was opened. He also noticed that if vessels remained fresh, the blood would remain fluid. [191] In later experiments he moved to cats. [151]

  4. Ignaz Semmelweis - Wikipedia

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    Ignaz Semmelweis Semmelweis, aged 42 in 1860, photograph by Borsos and Doctor Born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp (1818-07-01) 1 July 1818 Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Budapest, Hungary) Died 13 August 1865 (1865-08-13) (aged 47) Oberdöbling, Austrian Empire (now Vienna, Austria) Citizenship Kingdom of Hungary Alma mater University of Vienna Known for Introducing hand disinfection standards ...

  5. René Dubos - Wikipedia

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    René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal. [2]

  6. List of immunologists - Wikipedia

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    Samuel O. Freedman (1928-), discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen; Jules T. Freund (1890-1960) Sankar Ghosh; John Grange (1943-2016) Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), showed that antibodies are proteins; George Heist (1886-1920)

  7. Clostridioides difficile infection - Wikipedia

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    The bacterium was discovered in 1935 and found to be disease-causing in 1978. [11] Attributable costs for Clostridioides difficile infection in hospitalized adults range from $4500 to $15,000. [12] In the United States, healthcare-associated infections increase the cost of care by US$1.5 billion each year. [13]

  8. James Paget - Wikipedia

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    James Paget in 1870 James Paget in 1881 "Surgery" Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1876. Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (/ ˈ p æ dʒ ə t /, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease [1] and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of ...

  9. Timeline of immunology - Wikipedia

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    1868 – Busch discovered that a sarcoma patient being surgically intervened to remove the tumor, after being exposed to a patient suffering from erysipelas, got a skin infection and her tumor disappeared. He inoculated some other cancer patients with many successes. [7] [4]