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...elusive little bugs are smaller than typical bacteria but are generally bigger than true viruses. Even with an electron microscope they are so difficult to corner and classify that their very name is vague-PPLO (for pleuropneumonia-like organisms). But these days that name keeps popping up in lab reports from all over the world.* The baffling microbes have already been indicted for complicity in causing diseases ranging from puerperal (childbed) fever to the "viral pneumonia" that afflicts so many recruits in boot camps. Now they are even being suspected as a possible cause of cancer...
...bacteria known as Staphyiococcus aureus are dreaded by doctors as a cause of dangerous and persistent infections in many parts of the body. Ironically, the kinds of "staph" commonly found in hospitals are the worst of all, because they have developed resistance to most of the antibiotics around them. They are spread, usually from wounds or boils, not only on patients' linen, but also on nurses' hands and surgeons' breath, and even through air ducts. Newborn babies, with practically no resistance, are especially susceptible. Some hospital nurseries have been decimated by staph epidemics...
...Refractory Strain. Malaria parasites have complex life cycles that differ with different species. Antimalarial drugs work by attacking the parasites when they are most accessible and vulnerable, usually in the bloodstream. In theory, a man who is taking his chloroquine regularly should not get malaria. But just as some bacteria have become resistant to penicillin, so have some falciparum parasites developed enough resistance to chloroquine to be labeled "refractory" by Army medics. Most servicemen hospitalized for malaria are out in a week or ten days. Relapses may occur whenever a recovered patient's resistance is lowered-especially...
...that one child in every thousand is born with the disease. Hair & Fingernails. The first good news about C.F. came in the late 1940s with the introduction of several potent antibiotics. Virtually all C.F. victims have permanent staphylococcal infections,'and many have other persistent infections as well. The bacteria soon become resistant to any one drug, so treatment requires several antibiotics in a variety of combinations. The next breakthrough was early diagnosis by the sweat test (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957) and later modifications utilizing hair and fingernail clippings. Early diagnosis allows prompt treatment before the lungs are irreparably damaged...
...President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them -No. 11 - was described by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as "one of the most remarkable scientific photographs...