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EpiGrad

1:09 AM

Tragically unqualified to answer most biology questions. Quick, someone ask infectious disease stuff! ;)

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J. M.

9:06 AM

@EpiGrad Alright. :) Why are filoviruses so destructive?

Or maybe "has C. difficile ever been observed outside the guts of mammals?"

Or "has Erwinia ever been observed to cause disease in vertebrates?" (It's a bit weird, no? It's an enterobacterium, but it seems most of its notoriety is with causing blights and other plant diseases.)

EpiGrad

9:30 AM

Off hand, C. difficile has been observed outside the guts of mammals. On their hands, their shoes, their toilets, their floors, their gloves, their hospitals... ;)

I can also find a notable few examples or Erwinia or Erwinia-like organisms causing infection in humans, see jcm.asm.org/content/46/9/3156.full.pdf , though these appear to be vanishingly rare.

Now put those on the site ;)

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mbq

1:33 PM

On the site, people!

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J. M.

3:21 PM

Nah. They're too easy seeds. :) I'm still thinking of seeds with wider interest. I haven't figured out what palaeontology and botany questions to ask.

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Ctina

5:58 PM

So many good questions that I'm curious to know the answer... We need more people in here to answer them

Fabian

@Ctina We'll have to wait until the end of the private beta for that.

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Stack Exchange

7:25 PM

Q: Better tag than "immunology" for immunocytochemistry et al?

So, a question of mine: Recommended applications for commercial antibodies was edited to add the immunology tag. I'm all in favour of improving the tagging (my original ones were fairly pathetic) but this strikes me as muddying the waters. I would interpret immunology as being to do with studyin...