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🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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“Let’s do Bartonella next,” we said. “It’ll be straightforward and fun,” we promised ourselves. Turns out we were half right. In this fun but not quite straightforward episode, we tackle not one, not two, but three different species of Bartonella bacteria that can cause disease in humans: Bartonella bacilliformis (Carrión’s disease), B. quintana (trench fever), B. henselae (cat scratch disease). Essentially, we’re giving you three mini-turned-maxisodes for the price of one! For each pathogen, we review its surprisingly strange biology, take a brief tour of its history, and wrap up with a look at its current status across the globe, comparing and contrasting along the way. By the end of this ride, you’ll be bursting with Bartonella trivia, in awe of dental pulp, and scratching your head about the transmission of cat scratch fever.
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0:21.4 | On one occasion, I spent the night with the Brigade Machine Gun Officer and the |
0:25.1 | Signal's Officer in one of the captured German dugouts. We tossed down for the night in the hopes |
0:29.7 | of getting some sleep, but it was not to be. We know sooner lay down than hordes of life |
0:34.6 | got up. So we went round to the Medical Officer, who was also in the dugout with his equipment, |
0:39.5 | and he gave us some ointment which he assured us would keep the little broods away. |
0:43.2 | We anointed ourselves all over with the stuff and again lay down in great hopes, |
0:47.5 | but it was not to be. Because instead of discouraging them, it seemed to act like a kind of |
0:52.4 | orderv and the little beggars went at their feast with renewed vigor. A full day's rest allowed |
0:58.7 | us to clean up a bit and to launch a full scale attack on Lice. I sat in a quiet corner of a barn |
1:04.8 | for two hours delapsing myself as best I could. We were all at it, for none of us escaped their |
1:10.9 | vile attentions. The things lay in the seams of trousers in a deep furrows of long thick woolly |
1:17.1 | pants and seemed impregnable in their deep entrenchments. A lighted candle applied where they |
1:22.4 | were thickest made them pop. After a session of this, my face would be covered with small blood |
1:27.8 | spots from extra big fellows which had popped too vigorously. Lice hunting was called chatting. |
1:34.2 | In parcels from home, it was usual to receive a tin of supposedly death-dealing powder or |
1:39.2 | pomade, but the lice thrived on the stuff. We had to sleep fully dressed. Of course, |
1:45.6 | this was very uncomfortable with the pressure of ammunition on one's chest-restricted breathing. |
1:50.6 | Furthermore, when a little warmth was obtained, the vermin used to get busy. And for some unexplained |
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