1/ Do you know the common causes of fungal infections in patients with haematological malignancies?  A thread🧵 2/ Fungi can be Yeasts or Molds. Yeasts are microscopic fungi that consist of solitary cells that reproduce by budding. Molds occur in long filaments known as hyphae, which grow by apical extension.

1/ Vitamin B12 is one of the essentials of life, but did you know these essential facts? A 🧵 2/ Karl August Folkers, an 🇺🇸 chemist and his team, is credited with discovering B12. The story of the anti-pernicious-anaemia factor started in 1938 and ended in 1948 with the isolation of a red crystalline compound now called B12.

1/ Do you know who this man is? 🧵

He’s Fredrick W Mott, an English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿surgeon who identified cells with multiple spherical inclusions packed in their cytoplasm in the brains of monkeys with trypanosomiasis. 2/ In the early 1900s, he identified them as plasma cells in inflammation and called them morular cells (Latin morus=mulberry). He was later given the honour of having these cells named after him.

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