Word: antibioticized
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Who's the Quack? In Hidalgo, second county upriver from the Gulf, health authorities got state help for a four-year study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight...
The strong smell of Limburger has inspired many a moldy joke, but the news of Limburger last week was a serious and hopeful matter. The moldy-looking coating of the cheese, a young scientist reports, contains a potent antibiotic that kills many kinds of microbes and has probably saved a...
"Because we were working with the dangerous Clostridium botulinum bacteria," says Dr. Grecz, "we were put in a greenhouse away from the main buildings" -though his smelly raw materials also had something to do with his isolation. Undaunted, Grecz discovered that a common microbe, Brevibacterium linens, found on many soft...
Other cheeses that wear a protective coating of B. linens are Harz, Muenster, Port du Salut and Tilsiter. Liederkranz is the most heavily protected of all. Whether Dr. Grecz's unnamed antibiotic can ever be used in human patients is doubtful, though Eli Lilly & Co. is trying to extract...
Back from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized...