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...Penatin, like penicillin (TIME, June 7), is a drug extracted from the mould Pencillium notatum. The University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Walter Kocholaty calls it even more powerful against bacteria than penicillin...
...Penicillin is quickly eliminated in the urine. A physician must continually check its concentration in a wound or in the blood stream to make sure enough is present to prevent bacteria from multiplying (penicillin does not kill bacteria; the coup de grâce is delivered by the white blood cells...
...heavy bloodstream infections, dosages should be large from the start (about 15,000 units every three hours). With too-small doses, bacteria sometimes develop penicillin resistance...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...
...Science last week Maurice Landy and coworkers of the Army Medical School in Washington announced that they had used the test with positive results: a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (pus bacteria) was definitely making more PAB than its sulfa-susceptible twin. They attributed its sulfa-resistance to the PAB -possibly a big step forward in chemotherapy...