Word: bacteriologist
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BORN: Aug. 14, 1929, Harlan County, Ky. EDUCATION: U of Kentucky, B.S., 1951, M.P.H., 1953 FAMILY: Husband, Robert; three children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Bacteriologist POLITICAL CAREER: Monroe County legislature, 1975-79; New York Assembly, 1983-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 14117, Rochester...
...September morning in 1928, British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was discarding used culture plates that had been left in a pile on his laboratory workbench while he was on vacation. He noticed that one of the plates contained a blob of moldy contaminant that had apparently grown from particles wafting in through an open window. Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass...
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Hamilton was professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University. During her tenure at Northwestern, Hamilton established herself as a research pathologist and bacteriologist...
Gram-negative bacteria -- so named because they do not retain a laboratory stain devised by the Danish bacteriologist Christian Gram -- are usually harmless. They reside on the skin and in the gut, where they aid in digestion. But any significant disruption to the body's immune response -- caused, for instance, by severe burns, chemotherapy or major abdominal surgery -- allows these rod-shaped bacteria to multiply out of control and invade other parts of the body, eventually entering the bloodstream. Once there, one part of the bacterial cell wall called endotoxin can trigger a cascade of lethal effects, culminating in multiple...