Abstract
Every reader has a favorite source for quotations. For me, it is a small cockroach named Archy whose thoughts, adventures and interactions with a cat called Mehitabel are chronicled by Don Marquis. The observation in the opening quotation about ‘always some little thing’ is the quintessential statement for the infectious disease clinician. Although some pathogens are visible with the naked eye, some with the light microscope, some only with the electron microscope and others remain visually elusive (such as the hepatitis C agent), all are by necessity smaller than the infected or infested host.
... there is always some little thing that is too big for us ... [1]
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Lutwick, L.I. (1995). Introduction. In: Lutwick, L.I. (eds) Tuberculosis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2869-6_1
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