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...several bacteria can cause pyelonephritis, but the worst offender is the colon bacillus. In women, infection is often precipitated by pregnancy; in men, by a kidney stone or prostate trouble. In many cases, pyelonephritis persists over many years. As the kidneys eventually lose their filtering efficiency, the patient may die of uremic poisoning...
...bacteria that cause typhoid fever live almost exclusively in sewage, and typhoid remains a major problem in Asia, Africa and parts of South America. In countries where water supplies are kept free from sewage contamination and where food handlers follow the basic rules of cleanliness, typhoid is a rare disease. When it erupts in a place that prides itself on good sanitation, as it did in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt 18 months ago, it causes a violent flap. Last week there was a new typhoid flap in clean Aberdeen, Scotland (pop. 186,000). There were 324 confirmed cases...
When a nurse wanted to give them food or medicine or a bedpan, she took it from a sterile cabinet, pushed it through an outer port in the console, and closed the door. Automatically, ultraviolet radiation was switched on to kill off late-arriving bacteria. Then she slipped her hands into the long gloves built into the side of the plastic. With these, she could reach any part of the interior. She opened the inner port of the air-lock and passed the article to the patient. When he had finished, whether with meal tray or bedpan...
Lister's Dream. Protection against infection is especially important for burn patients because their wounds are large and the dead tissue is a rich soil for bacteria. It is no less important for transplant patients and for many others on high doses of cortisone-type drugs, whose resistance to infection is reduced...
...monkeys and cattle. Human DNA demonstrated only moderate interest in mouse, but it combined with some from a rhesus monkey almost as strongly as if the stuff came from a human. Both mouse and human showed weak interest in DNA from salmon, and almost none in that from bacteria...