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What to Do? Most of the dangerous staph are immediately found to be resistant to penicillin and streptomycin. They show descending orders of resistance to the tetracyclines (Aureomycin, Terramycin, Achromycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). Strains have emerged that show varying resistance to still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths...
...Penicillin and chlortetracycline (Aureomycin) are effective anti-decay agents, as are urea and dibasic ammonium carbonate; other antibiotics and chemicals tested (among them, many of those now commonly blended into toothpastes) do little or no good...
...Benjamin Minge Duggar, 84, longtime (1927-43) professor of physiology and economic botany at the University of Wisconsin, who was forced by university regulations to retire at 70, took a research job with a drug firm, four years later (1948) announced the discovery of the multi-purpose antibiotic aureomycin; in New Haven, Conn...
Benjamin Minge Duggar, discoverer of aureomycin D.Sc...
...agreed. Most regard it as a large virus. Parakeet lovers, like turkey raisers, apparently get it by breathing infected dust particles; processing plant workers get it from handling the viscera. Oregon has recorded no case of the rare human-to-human infection. Birds, like man, can be cured with aureomycin and Terramycin. (Before antibiotics, 20% of human cases ended in death...