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Not to be too huge a nerd, but as Juliet said in the episode, the organism causing the problem was a unicellular *eukaryotic* parasite, which puts it in the same class as malaria, toxoplasmosis, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… and would not have been treated by antibiotics. In fact protozoan diseases can be