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Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...
...enemy in this case (as in most U.S. outbreaks of in-hospital infection) were resistant strains of the common Staphylococcus aureus, usually found in boils and infected wounds. Scene of the counterattack was London's huge Hammersmith Hospital. By late 1957 no less than 88% of Staph aureus cultures there were resistant to penicillin, 82% to tetra-cyclihe, and 70% were immune to attack by a combination of the two drugs. Then Dr. Mary Barber, 48, a topflight bedside bacteriologist, and her anti-staph team went into action...
...wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle-drug medicine is practiced...
With the wholesale, often haphazard use of antimicrobial drugs (sulfas and antibiotics), easy-to-kill bacteria are becoming rarer, while resistant strains, especially of Staph. aureus, are rampant. As Boston's Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter told the surgeons: "These drugs kill the sissies among the bacteria and leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people...
...been bothered for months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...