Word: bacterias
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...noticed that the mold had cleared a wide, bacteria-free area between itself and the staphylococci-perhaps had killed them. He did not destroy the moldy culture...
...water, weather (the smelts died in both warm and cold water) or air men's practice bombings in the Great Lakes (bombed fish have pulverized livers, of which there was no sign in the dead smelts). Dr. Van Oosten thinks that most likely the fish were killed by bacteria or viruses, but probably no one will ever know...
Soon Dr. Fleming had ascertained that: 1) the strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...
...high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
...lived to the ripe age of more than four months. They were fed varying diets of sterilized fish food, algae, housefly larvae and axenic worms. They grew best on the worms. When a platyfish died (apparently because of inadequate diet), it remained clear-eyed and fresh; there were no bacteria present to decompose it. At the end of the experiment nearly all the fish were found still free of microorganisms...