Sentences with phrase «syphilis behind»
Freud's sexually perplexed protégé Fritz Wittels wrote, «As Sancho Panza rides behind Don Quixote, so syphilis behind Christianity.»
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Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.
Other notorious bacteria have been tied to depression, such as those behind syphilis and the cattle - related brucellosis, and not just because ill people feel sad, Dinan says.