The Microbe, the Infection Enigma, and the Host

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Human infectious diseases are unique in that the discovery of their environmental trigger, the microbe, was sufficient to drive the development of extraordinarily effective principles and tools for their prevention or cure. This unique medical prowess has outpaced, and perhaps even hindered, the development of scientific progress of equal magnitude in the biological understanding of infectious diseases. Indeed,...

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