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The blog articles (6 weeks old) describes this as new, but the linked paper is closer to 6 months old. Random report of the same bacteria giving a chemo patient
by petesergeant 4mo ago
The blog articles (6 weeks old) describes this as new, but the linked paper is closer to 6 months old. Random report of the same bacteria giving a chemo patient sepsis: https://www.cureus.com/articles/342789-sepsis-caused-by-ewingella-americana-in-an-immunocompromised-patient-a-case-report https://www.cureus.com/articles/342789-sepsis-caused-by-ewin... which seems unfortunate
- degamad 4mo agoYep, I found that one too - this paper <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710904/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710904/> assumes immunocompetent mice, while the sepsis one was in a patient who was immunocompromised (both by the cancer and by chemo). Given that many cancer sufferers are immunocompromised, this isn't necessarily a silver bullet, although it is an interesting result.