Word: antibioticized
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¶John Anderson, 58, is 5 ft. 10 ½ in., 148 Ibs.; blood pressure 120/68. He has varicose veins that require no treatment, and a high-frequency hearing loss in both ears for which he does not need a hearing aid. He sleeps seven hours a night and is an...
The end had come slowly, but not before a remarkable final display of Tito's legendary physical resistance. Stricken with a dangerous blockage in his circulatory system, Tito was admitted on Jan. 12 to a clinic in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. Within eight days, he underwent two high...
Is it Mount St. Helens finally erupting after weeks of ominous activity? A booby-trapped pineapple in the act of blowing up? In fact the remarkable photograph released by the microbiology laboratories of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City shows a bacterium literally exploding after getting a...
Shown magnified 150,000 times, the staphylococcus bacterium was exposed to a low-level dose of antibiotic. As a result, the wall of the one-celled bug began eroding. That process poses a great danger to the bacterium, which has internal pressures ranging from 25 to 30 atmospheres. Strained by...
The phenomenon shown in this "pretty picture," says Dr. Victor Lorian, the center's chief of microbiology and epidemiology, occurs only when low doses of antibiotic are administered. At higher levels, like those usually given to patients, the results are even more catastrophic -for the bacterium. The cell wall...